All 4 Uses of
contradict
in
Franny and Zooey
- Where I go, the English Department has about ten little section men running around ruining things for people, and they're all so brilliant they can hardly open their mouths—pardon the contradiction.†
Chpt 1.1 *
- And this was not the only contradiction to the Dublin-black-shawl motif.†
Chpt 2.2
- I not only passed out on him every hour on the hour but here I'd gone all the way up there for a nice, friendly, normal, cocktaily, supposedly happy football game, and absolutely everything he said I either jumped on or contradicted or—I don't know—just spoiled.†
Chpt 2.3
- God instructs the heart, not by ideas but by pains and contradictions.†
Chpt 2.4
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."