Sample Sentences for
contradict
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    Does the sentence contradict what is said in the previous paragraph?
    contradict = disagree with
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    She was frowning at Xenophilius, but she did not contradict him.  (source)
    contradict = voice disagreement
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    Tim didn't bother to contradict him.  (source)
    contradict = voice disagreement with
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    A gluttonous ascetic? Such a contradiction.  (source)
    contradiction = something that seems inconsistent with something else
    standard suffix: The suffix "-tion", converts a verb into a noun that denotes the action or result of the verb. Typically, there is a slight change in the ending of the root verb, as in action, education, and observation.
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    He snatched his knife out of the sheath and slammed it into a tree trunk. "Next time there would be no mercy." He looked round fiercely, daring them to contradict.  (source)
    contradict = voice disagreement
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    What a contradictory person he was, she thought, hurrying along South Road.  (source)
    contradictory = disagreeable
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    Now she was waiting to be contradicted.  (source)
    contradicted = disagreed with
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    But there was never a shortage of apparent contradictions in the relationship between Chris and his parents.  (source)
    contradictions = things that seemingly disagree with themselves
    standard suffix: The suffix "-tions", converts a verb into a plural noun that denotes results of the verb. Typically, there is a slight change in the ending of the root verb, as in actions, illustrations, and observations.
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    After the briefest possible discussion of business, Father would draw a small Bible from his traveling case; the wholesaler, whose beard would be even longer and fuller than Father's, would snatch a book or a scroll out of a drawer, clap a prayer cap onto his head; and the two of them would be off, arguing, comparing, interrupting, contradicting—reveling in each other's company.  (source)
    contradicting = disagreeing
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    "It isn't any use to the Kaiser either. He has everything he can want already." "I'm not so sure about that," contradicts Kat, "he has not had a war up till now. And every full-grown emperor requires at least one war, otherwise he would not become famous."  (source)
    contradicts = disagrees
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    Women knew that a land where men were contented, uncontradicted and safe in possession of unpunctured vanity was likely to be a very pleasant place for women to live.†  (source)
    standard prefix: The prefix "un-" in uncontradicted means not and reverses the meaning of contradicted. This is the same pattern you see in words like unhappy, unknown, and unlucky.
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    That his excessive human interest in the new place was entirely of Sue's making, while at the same time Sue was to be regarded even less than formerly as proper to create it, had an ethical contradictoriness to which he was not blind.†  (source)
    standard suffix: The suffix "-ness" converts an adjective to a noun. This is the same pattern you see in words like darkness, kindness, and coolness.
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    If he Vote it shall not be borrowed, or be absent, yet because in lending, he voteth the borrowing, he contradicteth his former Vote, and is obliged by the later, and becomes both borrower and lender, and consequently cannot demand payment from any particular man, but from the common Treasure onely;†  (source)
    standard suffix: Today, the suffix "-eth" is replaced by "-s", so that where they said "She contradicteth" in older English, today we say "She contradicts."
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