All 10 Uses
contradict
in
The Trial, by Fran Kafka
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- K. just did not feel like contradicting him...The girl's intention may have been good, perhaps she was under instructions to distract him or to give him the chance to collect himself, but the attempt had not worked.†
Chpt 3 *contradicting = disagreeing
- But that was not enough to persuade K.'s uncle, he had visibly taken against his friend's carer and, even though he did not contradict the invalid, he persecuted her with his scowl as she went over to the bed, put the candle on the bedside table and, leaning over the bed, made a fuss of him by tidying the pillows.†
Chpt 6contradict = disagree
- At first, K. was astonished at this orderly explanation, but then, just as quietly as the painter, he said, "I think you're contradicting yourself."†
Chpt 7contradicting = disagreeing
- That entails a contradiction.†
Chpt 7contradiction = something (typically a statement) that disagrees with itself; or (more rarely) the act of disagreeing
- That entails a second contradiction.†
Chpt 7
- "It's quite easy to clear up these contradictions," said the painter.†
Chpt 7contradictions = things that disagree with themselves; or (more rarely) acts of disagreeing
- "Then there's no point in talking about them," said K., he wanted, for the time being, to accept anything the painter told him, even if he thought it unlikely or contradicted what he had been told by others.†
Chpt 7contradicted = disagreed
- "Why didn't you say that immediately?" asked K. "I was going to take you there, but you called me back again," answered the businessman, as if confused by the contradictory commands.†
Chpt 8contradictory = in disagreement
- If one of the statements contradicted the other you would be right and the doorkeeper would have cheated the man from the country.†
Chpt 9contradicted = disagreed
- But there is no contradiction.†
Chpt 9contradiction = 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)