All 12 Uses
contradict
in
Invisible Man, by Ellison
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- Those two spots are among the darkest of our whole civilization-pardon me, our whole culture (an important distinction, I've heard)-which might sound like a hoax, or a contradiction, but that (by contradiction, I mean) is how the world moves: Not like an arrow, but a boomerang.†
Chpt Prol.contradiction = something (typically a statement) that disagrees with itself; or (more rarely) the act of disagreeing
- Those two spots are among the darkest of our whole civilization-pardon me, our whole culture (an important distinction, I've heard)-which might sound like a hoax, or a contradiction, but that (by contradiction, I mean) is how the world moves: Not like an arrow, but a boomerang.†
Chpt Prol.
- I accepted their answers too, though they were often in contradiction and even self-contradictory.†
Chpt 1
- I accepted their answers too, though they were often in contradiction and even self-contradictory.†
Chpt 1 *contradictory = in disagreement
- Ignoring the shock by laughing, as I brushed the coins off quickly, I discovered that I could contain the electricity-a contradiction, but it works.†
Chpt 1contradiction = something (typically a statement) that disagrees with itself; or (more rarely) the act of disagreeing
- And you went into this town with him and were hidden by the friendly aristocrat one night, and on the next by the white blacksmith who held no hatred-surprising contradictions of the underground.†
Chpt 5contradictions = things that disagree with themselves; or (more rarely) acts of disagreeing
- And why describe anyone in such contradictory words?†
Chpt 9contradictory = in disagreement
- Certainly I couldn't help being different from when I left the campus; but now a new, painful, contradictory voice had grown up within me, and between its demands for revengeful action and Mary's silent pressure I throbbed with guilt and puzzlement.†
Chpt 12
- If only all the contradictory voices shouting inside my head would calm down and sing a song in unison, whatever it was I wouldn't care as long as they sang without dissonance; yes, and avoided the uncertain extremes of the scale.†
Chpt 12
- He was a man and a Negro; a man and a brother; a man and a traitor, as you say; then he was a dead man, and alive or dead he was jam-full of contradictions.†
Chpt 22contradictions = things that disagree with themselves; or (more rarely) acts of disagreeing
- Well, I was and yet I was invisible, that was the fundamental contradiction.†
Chpt 23contradiction = something (typically a statement) that disagrees with itself; or (more rarely) the act of disagreeing
- If other groups were interested in becoming wealthy, I was to assure the Brothers and the doubting members of other districts, that we rejected wealth as corrupt and intrinsically degrading; if other minorities loved the country despite their grievances, I would assure the committee that we, immune to such absurdly human and mixed reactions, hated it absolutely; and, greatest contradiction of all, when they denounced the American scene as corrupt and degenerate, I was to say that we, though snarled inextricably within its veins and sinews, were miraculously healthy.†
Chpt 24
Definitions:
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(1)
(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."
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)