contrariety

He says what you wouldn’t expect; if Dyson has a pattern, perhaps it is contrariety.

Where Dylan rambunctiously inhabits the multifarious world, Cohen more often circles the many mortal contrarieties that lie between the lovers’ bed and the altar – regularly, for him, the same thing.

A profanity that the mayor of Florence used publicly to describe McDonald’s earlier this year betrayed “a belligerent contrariety,” the suit says.

Mr. Sharpe shook his head as if to clear it of contrarieties.

He lays out all of Benton’s contrarieties, argues them through, prosecuting, defending, and usually leaves them as he found them.