All 6 Uses of
contradict
in
Howards End
- Helen could not contradict them, for, once at all events, she had felt the same, and had seen the reliable walls of youth collapse.†
Part 5 *contradict = disagree
- To be humble and kind, to go straight ahead, to love people rather than pity them, to remember the submerged—well, one can't do all these things at once, worse luck, because they're so contradictory.†
Part 8contradictory = in disagreement
- One was more beautiful and more lively, but "the Miss Schlegels" still remained a composite Indian god, whose waving arms and contradictory speeches were the product of a single mind.†
Part 16
- Dolly described his visit with the key, while her father-in-law gave satisfaction by chaffing her and contradicting all she said.†
Part 23contradicting = disagreeing
- Margaret could not contradict her.†
Part 37contradict = disagree
- Contradictory notions stood side by side in his mind.†
Part 41contradictory = in disagreement
Definition:
disagree
in 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."