All 4 Uses
contradict
in
Early Cases Of Hercule Poirot
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- It is a curious case, full of contradictory features.†
Chpt 2 *contradictory = in disagreement
- Who is going to contradict them?†
Chpt 4contradict = disagree
- But for a lucky accident, and test question to Mrs Oglander by which I got her to contradict her daughter's account of how they were sitting, the Oglander family would have put a defeat on Hercule Poirot.'†
Chpt 5
- He had blustered, denied, and contradicted himself.†
Chpt 9contradicted = disagreed
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)