Now vengeance is wrought by the infliction of a punishment: and the nature of punishment consists in being contraryto the will, painful, and inflicted for some fault.
Further, virtue and vice, being contrary to one another, are in the same genus.
The first belongs to theft as being contrary to justice, which gives to each one that which is his, so that it belongs to theft to take possession of what is another's.
Hence suicide is always a mortal sin, as being contrary to the natural law and to charity.
Wherefore also disobedience to the commands of a superior is a mortal sin, as being contrary to the love of God, according to Rom.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "being contrary" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
