contrarious

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It was just bitterly disappointing and contrarious that the one person he wished to see was a Commodore Graham.

From The Summons by Mason, A. E. W. (Alfred Edward Woodley)

And therefore they make images like to those things that they have belief in, for to behold them and worship them first at morning, or they meet any contrarious things. 

From The Travels of Sir John Mandeville by Mandeville, John, Sir

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

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

So when they were in the sea a contrarious wind blew them on the coasts of North Wales, nigh the Castle Perilous.

From Le Mort d'Arthur: Volume 1 by Malory, Thomas, Sir