All 8 Uses
contradict
in
A Passage to India
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- It was this that led him to repeat, exaggerate, contradict.†
Chpt 2 *contradict = disagree
- The lady faced the world at her husband's wish and her own, but how bewildering she found it, the echoing contradictory world!†
Chpt 11contradictory = in disagreement
- The villagers contradicted her.†
Chpt 14contradicted = disagreed
- Born at Karachi, he seemed to contradict his theory, and would sometimes admit as much with a sad, quiet smile.†
Chpt 18contradict = disagree
- His mind whirled with contradictory impulses.†
Chpt 20contradictory = in disagreement
- Not one of them's all right," contradicted Major Callendar.†
Chpt 24contradicted = disagreed
- Do you contradict my last remark?†
Chpt 31contradict = disagree
- Yes, yes; but you didn't contradict what I said, so I thought it was true.†
Chpt 31
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)