contrarious

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The other kind is at best a permanent 'friendship recognised by the police':—a tacit confession of failure which this high-hearted, if contrarious couple were by no means minded to arrive at, now or ever.

From The Great Amulet by Diver, Maud

Alas! what more contrarious deed, What greater miracle of wrong than this, That man should know his good and take it not?

From The Poetical Works of Robert Bridges by Bridges, Robert

Part of his wish to wash his hands of life arose from his perception of its contrarious inconsistencies—of Nature's jaunty readiness to support unorthodox social principles.

From The Mayor of Casterbridge by Hardy, Thomas

“I’ve had a weary fortnight on’t, with Master that contrarious, I couldn’t do nought to suit him, and Mistress Hall a-coming day by day to serve him wi’ vinegar and pepper.

From All's Well Alice's Victory by Lewin, M.

The children of Mercurie and of Venus Been in hir wirking ful contrarious; Mercurie loveth wisdom and science, And Venus loveth ryot and dispence.

From Astronomical Lore in Chaucer by Grimm, Florence M.