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contradictory
adjective as in antagonistic
Example Sentences
Republicans took a more measured tone with Kennedy, with some praising his leadership and others asking him to clarify what they described as contradictory remarks.
"He did not make any concessions even where the documentary evidence contradicted his position, and gave contradictory evidence."
Historical scholarship on the draft riots is intensive and disputatious; my only concluding point is that they seem to contain all the most painful and contradictory lessons of our nation’s history in compressed form.
Investigators deemed the disappearance suspicious early on after saying Rebecca Haro offered contradictory statements about what happened the evening her child disappeared.
Work I was involved in has shown that people who are dispositionally ambivalent — that is, who are more comfortable holding contradictory thoughts or feelings — are less prone to cognitive biases like the confirmation bias.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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