Both Uses of
contradict
in
Gifted Hands
- And that experience contradicted everything I'd read about dreams in my psychological studies.†
p. 75.3contradicted = disagreed
- He spun toward me, beginning, as he often did with, "I'm a nice guy, but—" It hadn't taken me long to learn that those words contradicted his nice-guy image.†
p. 115.3 *
Definition:
disagree
in 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."