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    Synonyms and Definitions

    Use "contrariness" in a sentence

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    contrariness


    1. Although you can be independent to the point of contrariness, and maddeningly aloof and blasè, your self-reliance is a model for and stabilizing influence upon other people


    2. It is probably innate contrariness that makes Loki translate


    3. Most spiritual diseases start during such a stage, during which our spirits become linked to the world of devils and live in deception and contrariness


    4. I somehow felt exempt from this ritual, a contrariness I thought she would understand but that I would regret


    5. She folded herself in the large chair, and leaned her head against it in fatigued quiescence, while Tantripp went away wondering at this strange contrariness in her young mistress—that just the morning when she had more of a widow's face than ever, she should have asked for her lighter mourning which she had waived before


    6. Lizabetha Prokofievna, who disliked Varvara, although she had a great respect for her mother, was much annoyed by this sudden intimacy, and put it down to the general “contrariness” of her daughters, who were “always on the lookout for some new way of opposing her


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    Synonyms for "contrariness"

    contrariness crankiness crotchetiness grumpiness perverseness perversity

    "contrariness" definitions

    deliberate and stubborn unruliness and resistance to guidance or discipline


    a fussy and eccentric disposition