All 4 Uses
contradict
in
The ABC Murders
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- But by making a statement (and a somewhat out-of-the-way and preposterous one) and by your contradiction of it, tongues are immediately loosened.†
Chpt 6 *contradiction = something (typically a statement) that disagrees with itself; or (more rarely) the act of disagreeing
- Do you not see, Hastings, the man is a mass of contradictions?†
Chpt 31contradictions = things that disagree with themselves; or (more rarely) acts of disagreeing
- Poirot did not trouble to contradict her mistake as to his nationality.†
Chpt 32contradict = disagree
- Nothing so far has contradicted my little idea-that is why.†
Chpt 32contradicted = 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)