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contradictious

/kon-truh-dik-shuhs/US // ˌkɒn trəˈdɪk ʃəs //

矛盾的,矛盾的是,矛盾,自相矛盾的

Definitions

adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : inclined to contradict; disputatious.
    • : Archaic. self-contradictory.

Examples

  • But such a course would have been absolutely contradictious to his whole nature.

  • Our next, which is very brief, is a still more striking instance of this contradictious and exclusive spirit.

  • And this thought points the way out of another contradictious puzzle, that which confronts my argument from the ears of an ass.

  • Again, I lose two pennies every day on my wife; for she is contradictious, wilful, and passionate.

  • She knew not what to make of her niece, who had suddenly become stern and contradictious.