(noun.) two propositions are contradictories if both cannot be true (or both cannot be false) at the same time.

(adj.) unable to be both true at the same time .

(adj.) of words or propositions so related that both cannot be true and both cannot be false; '`perfect' and `imperfect' are contradictory terms' .

喬校對

• Now, really, Dodo, said Celia, with rather a deeper guttural than usual, you _are_ contradictory: first one thing and then another. 喬治·艾略特. 米德爾馬契.
• He stared after her in a turmoil of contradictory feelings. 伊迪絲·華頓. 純真年代.
• The witnesses were stupid and unreliable and contradictory, as witnesses always are. 馬克·吐溫. 傻子出國記.
• A system so various in its structure has many contradictory aspects, some very attractive, and some very repellent to a liberal intelligence. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
• But can anything be imagined more absurd and contradictory than this reasoning? 戴維·休謨. 人性論.
• This is verbally self-contradictory, but only verbally. 約翰·杜威. 民主與教育.
• But it must be confessed, that this mixture seems at first sight to be contradictory to my system. 戴維·休謨. 人性論.
• The fact that this culture is multiform and often contradictory is a sign that more and more of the interests of life are finding expression. 沃爾特·李普曼. 政治序論.
• Never mind what I make it, my friend, observed Mr. Jaggers, with a knowing and contradictory toss of his head. 查爾斯·狄更斯. 遠大前程.
• Do you mean to say I possess all these contradictory qualities at one and the same time? 弗格斯·休姆. 奇幻島.
• Contradictory things to wish,' said Bella, 'but my life and fortunes are so contradictory altogether that what can I expect myself to be! 查爾斯·狄更斯. 我們共同的朋友.
• What contradictory attributes of character we sometimes find ascribed to us, according to the eye with which we are viewed! 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 維萊特.
• Stoical, but contradictory. 查爾斯·狄更斯. 我們共同的朋友.
• Each one carries along a quantity of inert and outworn ideas,--not infrequently there is an internally contradictory current. 沃爾特·李普曼. 政治序論.
• Among his other contradictory decorations he had the hat of a bishop and the little gloves of a baby. 查爾斯·狄更斯. 荒涼山莊.

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