All 18 Uses of
contradict
in
The Brothers Karamazov
- Of course this was no great grievance to him: he would not have troubled to contradict a set of tradespeople.†
Chpt 3
- Here the boundaries meet and all contradictions exist side by side.†
Chpt 3 *
- Am I to understand that you only agreed with her from compassion for her invalid state, because you didn't want to irritate her by contradiction?"†
Chpt 5
- I believe like a child that suffering will be healed and made up for, that all the humiliating absurdity of human contradictions will vanish like a pitiful mirage, like the despicable fabrication of the impotent and infinitely small Euclidian mind of man, that in the world's finale, at the moment of eternal harmony, something so precious will come to pass that it will suffice for all hearts, for the comforting of all resentments, for the atonement of all the crimes of humanity, of all…†
Chpt 5
- For in those three questions the whole subsequent history of mankind is, as it were, brought together into one whole, and foretold, and in them are united all the unsolved historical contradictions of human nature.†
Chpt 5
- Till that moment he had thought it discreet not to contradict Grushenka too flatly in spite of her snubbing, since he had something to get out of her.†
Chpt 7
- There was not one in his favor, and some witnesses introduced new, almost crushing facts, in contradiction of his, Mitya's, story.†
Chpt 9
- There were contradictions in him, too: he was proud, but he was slavishly devoted to me, and yet all at once his eyes would flash and he'd refuse to agree with me; he'd argue, fly into a rage.†
Chpt 10
- Another contradicted this, and stated that he and his elder, Father Zossima, had broken into the monastery chest and "made tracks from the monastery."†
Chpt 11
- Mitya hurriedly pulled out a piece of paper from his pocket and read: " 'In order to determine this question, it is above all essential to put one's personality in contradiction to one's reality.'†
Chpt 11
- You contradict yourself!" said Ivan, pondering.†
Chpt 11
- It was impossible to make him contradict himself.†
Chpt 12
- I won't attempt to conceal from you that it is highly individual and contradicts all the other evidence collected by the prosecution.†
Chpt 12
- Because he was of the broad Karamazov character—that's just what I am leading up to—capable of combining the most incongruous contradictions, and capable of the greatest heights and of the greatest depths.†
Chpt 12
- All this, you will remember, was put forward in a tone that brooked no contradiction.†
Chpt 12
- I will not touch on it either, but will only venture to observe that if a lofty and high-principled person, such as that highly respected young lady unquestionably is, if such a person, I say, allows herself suddenly in court to contradict her first statement, with the obvious motive of ruining the prisoner, it is clear that this evidence has been given not impartially, not coolly.†
Chpt 12
- Oh, I am not contradicting myself—the money may have existed.†
Chpt 12
- "Yes," said Alyosha, not wanting to contradict him.†
Chpt Epil.
Definition:
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(contradict) disagreein various senses, including:
- to say something is not true -- as in "She contradicted his testimony."
- to say something else is true when both can't be true -- as in "I don't believe her. She contradicted herself as she told us what happened."
- to be in conflict with -- as in "Her assertions contradict accepted scientific principles."