All 4 Uses of
contradict
in
Arrowsmith
- He reverently accepted everything, no matter how contradictory to everything else, that his medical instructors told him, but this killing of animals—he hated it.†
Chpt 4 *
- He leaned across two men to slap the indignant dean on the shoulder; he contradicted his neighbors; he sang a stanza of "I'm Bound Away for the Wild Missourai.†
Chpt 8
- He wanted to look behind details and impressive-sounding lists of technical terms for the causes of things, for general rules which might reduce the chaos of dissimilar and contradictory symptoms to the orderliness of chemistry.†
Chpt 10
- "Well, anyway— She who might have picked any number of well-bred, agreeable, intelligent chaps—and I MEAN intelligent, because this Arrowsmith person may know all about germs, but he doesn't know a symphony from a savory…… I don't think I'm too fussy, but I don't quite see why we should go to a house where the host apparently enjoys flatly contradicting you…… Poor devil, I'm really sorry for him; probably he doesn't even know when he's being rude."†
Chpt 39
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."