contrariety

Example Sentences

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He had an inexhaustible fund of good humour, and was not even angry when Pete, in sheer contrariety, told him the reason for his enticement to the still.

From The Prophet of the Great Smoky Mountains by Murfree, Mary Noailles

"That a contrariety to moral rectitude was consequently infinitely displeasing to God and infinitely evil."

From Reason, The Only Oracle of Man Or a Compendius System of Natural Religion by Allen, Ethan

Somehow, the contrariety of the proprieties, as she translated them, bewildered and baffled him.

From The Prophet of the Great Smoky Mountains by Murfree, Mary Noailles

To hold out against Miss Waterhouse had sometimes been necessary to satisfy that spirit of contrariety which represents the workings of original sin in the best behaved of children.

From Abington Abbey A Novel by Marshall, Archibald

“And flowing north, too?” said Frank, whose 8 quick mind had seized upon that point of contrariety in Nature.

From The Radio Boys Rescue the Lost Alaska Expedition by Breckenridge, Gerald