All 12 Uses
contradict
in
One Hundred Years of Solitude
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- In the midst of the tramping of boots, contradictory commands, cannon shots that made the earth tremble, wild shooting, and the senseless sound of cornets, the supposed Colonel Stevenson managed to speak to Arcadio.†
Chpt 6contradictory = in disagreement
- Simultaneous and contradictory information declared him victorious in Villanueva, defeated in Guacamayal, devoured by Motilon Indians, dead in a village in the swamp, and up in arms again in Urumita.†
Chpt 7 *
- A short time later contradictory news of the war began to come in.†
Chpt 8
- One week before the agreement was announced, and in the midst of a storm of contradictory rumors, Colonel Aureliano Buendia and ten trusted officers, among them Colonel Roque Carnicero, stealthily arrived in Macondo after midnight, dismissed the garrison, buried their weapons, and destroyed their records.†
Chpt 8
- The news in September was contradictory.†
Chpt 8
- It's a contradiction" he said.†
Chpt 9contradiction = something (typically a statement) that disagrees with itself; or (more rarely) the act of disagreeing
- Santa Sofia de la Piedad, the silent one, the condescending one, the one who never contradicted anyone, not even her own children, had the impression that it was a forbidden act.†
Chpt 9contradicted = disagreed
- Ursula, for her part, thanked God for having awarded the family with a creature of exceptional purity, but at the same time she was disturbed by her beauty, for it seemed a contradictory virtue to her, a diabolical trap at the center of her innocence.†
Chpt 10contradictory = in disagreement
- Even so she finally noticed the deep silences, the sudden outbursts, the changes in mood, and the contradictions of her daughter.†
Chpt 14contradictions = things that disagree with themselves; or (more rarely) acts of disagreeing
- It happened once when someone at the table complained about the ruin into which the town had sunk when the banana company had abandoned it, and Aureliano contradicted him with maturity and with the vision of a grown person.†
Chpt 17contradicted = disagreed
- His clothing in tatters, his shoes cracked, the old knapsack on his shoulder his only luggage, he looked like a beggar, but his bearing had a dignity that was in frank contradiction to his appearance.†
Chpt 18contradiction = something (typically a statement) that disagrees with itself; or (more rarely) the act of disagreeing
- Then she wrote her husband a letter of contradictory truths in which she repeated her love and said how anxious she was to see him again, but at the same time she admitted as a design of fate the impossibility of living without Aureliano.†
Chpt 20contradictory = in disagreement
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)