All 4 Uses of
contradict
in
Six Characters in Search of an Author
- [He stops when he sees she makes signs to contradict him, opens his arms wide in sign of desperation, seeing how hopeless it is to make himself understood†
Act 1contradict = disagree
- This seeming contradiction, gentlemen, is the strongest proof that I stand here a live man before you.†
Act 1 *contradiction = something (typically a statement) that disagrees with itself; or (more rarely) the act of disagreeing
- I won't contradict you; but excuse me, the actors aren't the characters.†
Act 2contradict = disagree
- I don't dare contradict you, sir; but, believe me, it is a terrible suffering for us who are as we are, with these bodies of ours, these features to see...The Manager [cutting him short and out of patience].†
Act 2
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."