contrariant

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Iowans are even contrariant enough to believe still in the superiority of American automobiles: foreign-car sales are only half the national average.

From Time Magazine Archive

Gray, and dark gray, and purple, they writhed in confused, contrariant motions, and tossed up a vaporous foam, while spots in them gyrated like whirlpools.

From Lilith, a romance by MacDonald, George

The veiled monotheism of Egypt, the dualism of Persia, the shamanism of Etruria, the pronounced polytheism of India are too contrariant to admit of any one explanation, or to be derivative of one single source....

From History of Circumcision from the Earliest Times to the Present Moral and Physical Reasons for its Performance by Remondino, Peter Charles