All 9 Uses of
contradict
in
Catch-22
- 'Don't contradict me,' Colonel Cathcart said.†
Chpt 13
- I'm not contradicting you, sir.†
Chpt 13 *
- Even that's a contradiction.'†
Chpt 13
- I've just caught you in a contradiction.†
Chpt 27
- I suppose you have caught me in a contradiction.†
Chpt 27
- Major Sanderson proudly lettered 'Contradiction' on his pad with his thick black pencil.†
Chpt 27
- Just why do you think,' he resumed when he had finished, looking up, 'that you made those two statements expressing contradictory emotional responses to the fish?†
Chpt 27
- 'Your name is Fortiori,' Major Sanderson contradicted him belligerently.†
Chpt 27
- Yossarian leaned forward and peered closely into Orr's inscrutable mask of contradictory emotions.†
Chpt 28
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."