contrarious
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O place and greatness, millions of false eyes Are stuck upon thee! volumes of report Run with these false, and most contrarious quest Upon thy doings!
From Measure for Measure by Shakespeare, William
Volumes of report Run with these false and most contrarious quests Upon thy doings!
From John Lothrop Motley, A Memoir — Complete by Holmes, Oliver Wendell
The Gaelic man had no sooner entered the Kirk o' the General Assembly," they said, "than the maister of the Assembly rose, and, speaking very rough, said, 'Ye contrarious rascal, what tak's you here?
From My Schools and Schoolmasters or The Story of my Education. by Miller, Hugh
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.
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
