contrarious

[kuhn-trair-ee-uhs] / kənˈtrɛər i əs /

ADJECTIVE

contrary

Synonyms

WEAK

antagonistic difficult impossible inimical inimitable ornery perverse refractory wayward

Example Sentences

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Alas! what more contrarious deed, What greater miracle of wrong than this, That man should know his good and take it not?

From The Poetical Works of Robert Bridges by Bridges, Robert

I wonder what makes you such a contrarious person, Gibbie Gault?

From Miss Gibbie Gault by Bosher, Kate Langley

I answer, such a Will could not create, could not be God, for it involves the false and contrarious.

From Miracles of Our Lord by MacDonald, George

And what greater absurditie can there bee, then to say that one cure shall serue for diuers, nay, contrarious sortes of diseases?

From A Counter-Blaste to Tobacco by Goldsmid, Edmund

The children of Mercurie and of Venus Been in hir wirking ful contrarious; Mercurie loveth wisdom and science, And Venus loveth ryot and dispence.

From Astronomical Lore in Chaucer by Grimm, Florence M.