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Contrariness   Listen
noun
Contrariness  n.  State or quality of being contrary; opposition; inconsistency; contrariety; perverseness; obstinacy.





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"Contrariness" Quotes from Famous Books



... imposition, even the imposition of a husband, has to stop, and you've reached that point. You didn't have to stay in the field until dark. There's another day coming, and the ploughing'll keep. It isn't like the harvest. It was just your own contrariness that kept you there. You fired the best man you ever had to-day, in a fit of temper, and now you're trying to take it out ...
— The Homesteaders - A Novel of the Canadian West • Robert J. C. Stead
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... You're just pulling the other way from sheer contrariness. Why can't you be decent ...
— Ted and the Telephone • Sara Ware Bassett
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... forthcoming. Coleridge put in the time lecturing and preaching from Unitarian pulpits. He also tried his hand as editor, but the publication scheme failed to bring the shekels that were to buy emancipation. The innate contrariness of things seemed to be blocking all ...
— Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great, Volume 5 (of 14) • Elbert Hubbard
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... me—only last Spring! but now the contrariness in me made me say that it was absolutely necessary that I returned immediately to Versailles. I believe I should have answered like that even if there had been no Miss Sharp,—Alathea—in the case, just because I now knew Nina really wanted me to stay—every man is like that, more or ...
— Man and Maid • Elinor Glyn
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Words linked to "Contrariness" :   perverseness, orneriness, fractiousness, cussedness, grumpiness, willfulness, crankiness


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