All 3 Uses
contradict
in
The Boy on the Wooden Box
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- It made no sense to me, and I even wondered how Nazis could believe such contradictions themselves.†
p. 82.6 *contradictions = things that disagree with themselves; or (more rarely) acts of disagreeing
- The scraps of information we received were frequently contradictory.†
p. 91.7contradictory = in disagreement
- Miraculously, Oskar Schindler, this complex man of many contradictions—Nazi opportunist, schemer, courageous maverick, rescuer, hero—had saved nearly 1,200 Jews from almost certain death.†
p. 165.8contradictions = things that disagree with themselves; or (more rarely) acts 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)