Both Uses of
inconsistent
in
The House of Mirth
- She was not above the inconsistency of charging fate, rather than herself, with her own misfortunes; but she inveighed so acrimoniously against love-matches that Lily would have fancied her own marriage had been of that nature, had not Mrs. Bart frequently assured her that she had been "talked into it"—by whom, she never made clear.†
Chpt 1.3 *
- He was already annoyed with himself for having left Monte Carlo, where he had intended to pass the week which remained to him before sailing; but it would now be difficult to return on his steps without an appearance of inconsistency from which his pride recoiled.†
Chpt 2.1
Definition:
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(inconsistent) not the same in different parts or at different times
or:
not in agreement [with something else]