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US
/ˈkɑntɹɛɹinəs/
]
NOUN
- a fussy and eccentric disposition
- deliberate and stubborn unruliness and resistance to guidance or discipline
How To Use contrariness In A Sentence
- I wanted to experience the culinary contrariness of our two countries - I wanted to taste the difference!
- She might be out of patience with Sara's "contrariness," but she spoiled and petted her for all that, for the girl was the very core of her childless heart. Further Chronicles of Avonlea
- I appeal to the White community to turn away from "contrariness" as the motor for political debate, and to help us give every citizen in this Province a stake in this Province. SPEECH BY EBRAHIM RASOOL, LEADER OF THE OPPOSITION IN THE WESTERN CAPE, IN RESPONSE TO THE PREMIER�S OPENING SPEECH DELIVERED ON FRIDAY, 19 FEBRUARY 1999
- In the end, the issue ultimately comes down to this: when does revisionism cross over into shock value contrariness?
- By a natural perversity of disposition, which my nursemaids called contrariness, Eothen
- Most politicians could not long survive such confounding contrariness.
- A streak of pragmatism, skepticism, and contrariness runs deep in the American character, historians say.
- By a natural perversity of disposition, which my nursemaids called contrariness, I felt the more strongly for my creed when I saw it despised among men. Eothen, or, Traces of Travel Brought Home from the East
- The bitter ones sneer or reproach or laugh at this "contrariness" in women they do not understand, and which, baffling their intellect, appears to them to be irrational folly. Married Love: or, Love in Marriage
- There was a contrariness there which, she admits, remains in character.