Contradictious
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech adjective
Quick meaning: Contradictious is an adjective meaning (obsolete) Filled with contradictions; contradicting; inconsistent.
Meaning
(obsolete) Filled with contradictions; contradicting; inconsistent.
More Meanings
- (obsolete) Inclined to contradict or cavil.
Example Sentences
If he had taken a contradictious tone on purpose to draw Mrs. Luna out, he could not have elicited more of the information he desired.
The police prosecutor hammered at him and the bench had a go at him, and they commanded from him such a madhouse particularity between the distinctions of looking and seeing that Bradly was reduced to imbecility, and so contradictious were his mutterings that he was openly suspected of trying to shield that wretched tramp, whom Bradly would have gladly seen sunk in the bottomless pit reserved for snoopers.
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include discordous, debateful, discordful, checkered, dissentious, perplexable.
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