contrarious

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The other kind is at best a permanent 'friendship recognised by the police':—a tacit confession of failure which this high-hearted, if contrarious couple were by no means minded to arrive at, now or ever.

From The Great Amulet by Diver, Maud

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

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.

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

It was the son who sang the “Death of Nelson” under such contrarious circumstances.

From The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 2 (of 25) by Stevenson, Robert Louis