contrarious

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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

But the learningknight would not hear say nay nor do her mandement ne have him in aught contrarious to his list and he said how it was a marvellous castle.

From Ulysses by Joyce, James

So when they were in the sea a contrarious wind blew them on the coasts of North Wales, nigh the Castle Perilous.

From Le Mort d'Arthur: Volume 1 by Malory, Thomas, Sir

Volumes of report Run with these false and most contrarious guests Upon thy doings!

From Life of Mary Queen of Scots, Volume II (of 2) by Bell, Henry Glassford

Part of his wish to wash his hands of life arose from his perception of its contrarious inconsistencies—of Nature's jaunty readiness to support unorthodox social principles.

From The Mayor of Casterbridge by Hardy, Thomas