All 11 Uses
contradict
in
The Bourne Identity
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- You appear to be a mass of contradictions; there's a subsurface violence almost always in control, but very much alive.†
Chpt 2 *contradictions = things that disagree with themselves; or (more rarely) acts of disagreeing
- I won't contradict you.†
Chpt 3contradict = disagree
- Yet there was a contradiction, and he recognized that, too.†
Chpt 3contradiction = something (typically a statement) that disagrees with itself; or (more rarely) the act of disagreeing
- How many contradictions!†
Chpt 8contradictions = things that disagree with themselves; or (more rarely) acts of disagreeing
- "The man is Cain," said Colonel Jack Manning bluntly, as if he expected to be contradicted by at least three of the four civilians at the Pentagon conference table.†
Chpt 15contradicted = disagreed
- It could explain you, the contradiction between you and the man people think you are.†
Chpt 23contradiction = something (typically a statement) that disagrees with itself; or (more rarely) the act of disagreeing
- That's what's so improbable, so contradictory.†
Chpt 24contradictory = in disagreement
- "Not naturally," contradicted Bourne.†
Chpt 28contradicted = disagreed
- The old man stared silently at Bourne, the fundamental contradiction clear to him.†
Chpt 33contradiction = something (typically a statement) that disagrees with itself; or (more rarely) the act of disagreeing
- It's hazy, confusing, even contradictory.†
Chpt 34contradictory = in disagreement
- It was 8:45 in the morning, New York's rush hour traffic as usual a contradiction in terms.†
Chpt 35contradiction = something (typically a statement) that disagrees with itself; or (more rarely) the act of disagreeing
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)