contrarious
Example Sentences
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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
It was just bitterly disappointing and contrarious that the one person he wished to see was a Commodore Graham.
From The Summons by Mason, A. E. W. (Alfred Edward Woodley)
Say worthie Doctours & Clerkes curious, What moneth you of bookes to have such number, Since diuers doctrines through way contrarious, Doth man's minde distract and sore encomber.
From Bibliomania in the Middle Ages by Merryweather, Frederick Somner
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
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
