contrarious
Example Sentences
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But the learningknight would not hear say nay nor do her mandement ne have him in aught contrarious to his list and he said how it was a marvellous castle.
From Ulysses by Joyce, James
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
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
Say worthie Doctours & Clerkes curious, What moneth you of bookes to have such number, Since diuers doctrines through way contrarious, Doth man's minde distract and sore encomber.
From Bibliomania in the Middle Ages by Merryweather, Frederick Somner
The other kind is at best a permanent 'friendship recognised by the police':—a tacit confession of failure which this high-hearted, if contrarious couple were by no means minded to arrive at, now or ever.
From The Great Amulet by Diver, Maud
