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contradictory English

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contradictory

of words or propositions so related that both cannot be true and both cannot be false 'perfect' and 'imperfect' are contradictory terms two propositions are contradictories if both cannot be true (or both cannot be false) at the same time unable to be both true at the same time (= confounding) that confounds or contradicts or confuses (= at odds) in disagreement the figures are at odds with our findings contradictory attributes of unjust justice and loving vindictiveness — John Morley

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Simple sentences

For example, if a chain-smoking teacher cautions a pupil for smoking, that warning is self-contradictory.
The stories that circulated about the old graveyard were contradictory, but nevertheless made your heart freeze.
With so much contradictory information, one no longer knows what type of oils should be used for cooking.

Movie subtitles

It's a bit contradictory, isn't it?
Mr. Adare, if there served in the army know that if they contradictory orders, will meet later.
Scientific discoveries on the planet Venus are appalling and contradictory.
Admit it, these terms are contradictory.
The symptoms are very strange and contradictory.
And in some respects. Contradictory.
I cannot understand how, being endowed with such contradictory characters, we have lived in such friendship.
That is contradictory.
Interesting, however-- their reaction to your defiance was remarkably similar to the reaction of a computer when fed insufficient or contradictory data.
The whole thing is contradictory.
Teacher! That's contradictory!
You've had some? Sorry, but it all seems contradictory.
Besides I would point out that if claims are contradictory like Lautner's yes and then no, either may be accepted.
Yes. - Yes? Too bad for Mr. Levangie, and the prosecution, that there are many witnesses, workers and neighbors, who give contradictory testimonies.
But, gentlemen. Your theories are distinctly contradictory.
Innocent men don't have strategic lapses of memory. They don't make contradictory statements, darling.
I mean, when they call you in to give a report like this. you begin with a lot of highly qualified, contradictory statements. and watch your man's face to see which one pleases him.
Contradictory mansions?
Their reaction to your defiance was remarkably similar to the reaction of a computer, when fed insufficient or contradictory data.
In my book, being safe and being successful aren't contradictory.
Sorry, but it all seems contradictory.
The Zodiac signs are contradictory.
Simon and Daniel said it had to do with a dwarf. But their reports were confusing and contradictory.
An area where there are no rules, contradictory laws and no clear social consensus as to what should be done.
An opposite person of the contradictory gender, that sort of thing.
Cornusse and the Baron persist in their contradictory statements and the body remains unindentified.
Now, this. - Our founder must have known when he wrote these seemingly contradictory rules.
I succeeded even in refining the most varied expressions, the most. contradictory.
Inside every human being there are ten contradictory characters.
The historians of subsequent centuries have given contradictory and different ideas of Attila.
It's contradictory, you see?
It's no more contradictory than it is for someone to pride himself on having remained anonymously silent since 1968 while admitting that he has not even reached the point of scorning his professors.
Contradictory enough to have invited you into this house. Despite his being a man without airs and graces.
That's totally contradictory with our capitalist lifestyle.
The search for beauty and the search for lucidity are in no way contradictory.
In my earliest years, I realized life consisted of two contradictory elements.

News and current affairs

The ongoing conflict between Iran's rulers and the Iranian public is the result of a head-on collision between two contradictory forces.
Others, however, see a Chinese strategy that is confused, contradictory, and paralyzed by competing bureaucratic interests.
Yet, the ability of European institutions to accommodate deeper and broader integration is increasingly undermined by the persistence of a contradictory and long-obsolete ideal: the nation-state as the basis of political legitimacy and sovereignty.
If football and its culminating moment, the World Cup, has become the universal religion of the global age, this is above all because it fulfills, in a non-spiritual way, contradictory instincts in human nature.
Instead, the EU made a bad deal a lot costlier through a host of partly contradictory policies.
The Obama administration's contradictory rhetoric - affirming that the US-Japan security treaty covers the Senkakus, while refusing to take a position on the islands' sovereignty - has not helped.
The commission's members offer two, somewhat contradictory, answers to that question.
President De la Rua's worse problem is not this or that policy, but his tendency to send contradictory messages that confuse markets.
EU governments have different, often contradictory, strategies for their respective manufacturing sectors.
These two apparently contradictory interests can be reconciled and translated into a common strategy by adopting a three-pronged approach based on efficient isolation, effective containment, and direct negotiations.
Weeks into the crisis triggered by Iran's illegal capture of 15 British naval personnel, the European Union's irresolute and contradictory approach is making matters worse.
And, as the ongoing dispute over Greece illustrates, agreement remains elusive: Participating countries have developed contradictory analyses of the causes of the debt crisis, from which they derive contradictory prescriptions.
Neo-conservatism thus cannot be reduced to advocacy of the free market or right-wing populism, since its ideological specificity consists in the fusion of these contradictory outlooks.
Unfortunately, key components of Japan's emerging security strategy remain vague and contradictory.
Several causes of - some of them contradictory - obesity have been identified.
The model in public health is smoking, though the list of overlapping and contradictory causes implies greater deference to factors beyond our control.
This seemingly contradictory fall in financing costs reflected an abundance of foreign capital seeking to invest in the US, including money fleeing from Europe.
Another indirect indication of an ongoing struggle is the uncertain behavior of the Russian military in Georgia, which apparently is the result of contradictory orders from the Kremlin.
He sends different diplomats into negotiations with contradictory instructions.
Transnational forces, states, and non-state actors are all involved, and their goals are complex and sometimes contradictory, with no universal commitment to preserving the status quo.
People do a great deal of thinking, but sometimes they think so much that they come up with contradictory responses.
So, the Chinese ended up embracing Chu and Locke in contradictory ways: as high-ranking representatives of the US government and as compatriots with whom they share the common bond of Chinese-ness.
Germany's actions throughout the crisis have been plainly contradictory.

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