Synonym: at odds, conflicting, confounding, mutually exclusive, self-contradictory. Similar words: contradiction, contractor, victory, on the contrary, contract, contrary, contrast, contributor. Meaning: [‚kɑntrə'dɪhtərɪ /'kɒn-] n. two propositions are contradictories if both cannot be true (or both cannot be false) at the same time. adj. 1. of words or propositions so related that both cannot be true and both cannot be false 2. that confounds or contradicts or confuses 3. in disagreement 4. unable to be both true at the same time.
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31) The gains to be made in the political sphere are, as Chapter S will show, more ambiguous and contradictory.
32) Quantal analysis of excitatory synapses in the hippocampus has proved difficult and has led to contradictory conclusions when applied to long-term potentiation.
33) Hitherto the instrumental approach to law has been criticized as inadequate to provide a coherent explanation for contradictory tendencies in legal developments.
34) Had this apparently contradictory programme been worked out over a long period, it might have seemed more logical.
35) With these two seemingly contradictory attitudes in mind, underline all the adjectives you've used.
36) The new account of his life shows a complex and at times seemingly contradictory person.
37) The public is being bombarded with contradictory information about the new tax from all sides.
38) The evidence here is often contradictory, and suggests that in practice, there were variations in what was asked of women.
39) We can see that the economic aims of Thatcherism have been contradictory to its moral postures.
40) I think that what links those two apparently contradictory aspects is precisely a concern with morality.
41) With regard to the search for consensus the results are often contradictory.
41) Sentencedict.com try its best to collect and build good sentences.
42) This position, which would have seemed contradictory to both Buffon and Linnaeus, requires some explanation.
43) The ambiguity of something so ill-defined argued for on such different, and sometimes contradictory grounds, needs serious analysis.
44) Recently, I have begun to notice another phenomenon: contradictory placenames.
45) Or does it simply make clear that the church tolerates a margin of contradictory views in which extremists can flourish?
46) Indeed, there exists an equally strong, and in this context often contradictory, philosophical premiss, that of paternalism.
47) Sam assigned a team to organize the ideas into categories and make sense out of the wide-ranging and often contradictory criticisms.
48) Consumer goods occupy a much more contradictory place in the circulation and realisation of capital than do fixed assets.
49) Moreover. such goals that can be indicated are frequently vague, multiple and contradictory.
50) These arguments provide the foundation for Simmel's account of the contradictory nature of modern life.
51) As a consequence it has been possible, for over a century, to adopt two apparently quite contradictory positions simultaneously.
52) It is the contradictory nature of humankind that makes the struggle with evil so complicated.
53) The capitalist state has to perform two essential but often contradictory functions.
54) Johnson would often move in contradictory directions, yet he would usually achieve consensus.
55) The contradictory demands of justifying and criticizing national prejudice can be seen in the everyday discourse of racism.
56) Contradictory discourses and practices within and between these agencies of socialization are given little serious attention.
57) Williams was a man who was able to hold many apparently contradictory ideas in harmony.
58) In our example, the data seem too contradictory to support any clear generalization about gender and voting.
59) The fact that outsiders find them contradictory and paradoxical does not bother them a bit.
60) The absence of resistance in a different country is thus not contradictory to our findings.
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