Tommy Smith could not see why cats should be poor things because they didn’t burrow, but the mole seemed quite sure of it, and he did not like tocontradict him.
Tommy Smith did not think the peewit was right in this opinion of his, but he thought that he had better not contradict him so early in the conversation.
Yet, let your apostle be the quintessence of tact and humility, he will not escape slander, odium, and contempt when he essays tocontradict the ancient platitudes.
Johnson and Carlyle were born with the faculty; they knew how to inspire awe, and no one dared to contradict them.
I think if you cannot assent to mother's statements, it would be more becoming not to contradict them.
To argue that when I say "All crows are black," I do not form a class of black things, and contemplate crows within it as one circle is within another, is to contradict no intelligent logical doctrine.
When this phrase is applied to a generalisation of fact, Nature or Experience is put figuratively in the position of a Respondent unable to contradict the inquirer.
We shall find that they are not really antagonistic, but only different: that each is substantially right from its own point of view: and that they seem to contradict one another only when the point of view is misunderstood.
The Questioner tries in short to make him contradict himself.
Such a belief would confound and contradict all the attributes of the All-wise and the All-mighty.
He wrote, you know, to me from Malta, when the account of his conversion first appeared, to take all necessary steps to contradict the announcement, and counteract its consequences.
He did not combat or contradict anybody, but he would give a faint smile when the Colonel uttered his old-fashioned sentiments, which drove the old soldier frantic.
He did not contradict her, but he pressed her hand with a look which was equivalent to kissing it, though he was not romantic enough to go quite that length.
The mythological stories contradicteach other on every point.
The accounts are natural and simple, often naive, never contradict each other, and are always consistent with each other in time and place.
If any one would contradict let him visit the churches and cemeteries of the country on All Saints' day and he will be convinced.
If the lawyer succeeded in destroying the force of their testimony by making them contradict each other and even perjure themselves, new charges were at once preferred.
If it is made the object of calumny, it should contradict and confound the slanderer.
Would not a clever counsel make hercontradict herself?
The Counsel for the Prosecution questioned her apparently in order to elicit the facts: in reality, as I now believe, in order to make her contradict herself.
Yet reason can never contradict itself; two contradictory demonstrations would be the contradiction of reason, and would produce its ruin; the contradiction can, therefore, only be apparent.
We do not reflect without rules and objects already known; consequently, to admit classifications in the first principle, is to divest it of its character and to contradict ourselves.
To oppose to it that we cannot say therefore, is to repeat the worn-out argument of the schools; and to affirm that we cannot say I think, is to contradict a fact of consciousness not denied even by skeptics.
In a word, the God of the people of today is subject to as many forms as Jupiter of the Pagans, and what is still more strange, these follies contradict each other and shock good sense.
But is there nothing in this assumption that would appear to contradict other well-established features of Australian social life?
Spencer and Gillen, who speak on page 109 of the real and not pretended group marriage among the Urabunna, say on the next page, that in the same tribe group marriage preceded the present state of things--and so contradict themselves.
This would apparently contradict the assumption of fixed boundaries.
As a matter of fact, a whole series of customs, duties, and tribal regulations absolutely contradict the existence of jealousy in our sense.
The first principles are founded on the imagination and senses: The conclusion, therefore, can never go beyond, much less contradict these faculties.
But beside that experience in most instances seems to contradict this opinion, we may establish the relation of priority by a kind of inference or reasoning.
All the world conspires to oppose and contradict me; though such is my weakness, that I feel all my opinions loosen and fall of themselves, when unsupported by the approbation of others.
If you reply, that justice and injustice admit of degree, and run insensibly into each other, you expresslycontradict the foregoing position, that obligation and property are not susceptible of such a gradation.
Now we know that what they speak grieveth thee: yet they do not accuse thee of falsehood; but the ungodly contradict the signs of GOD.
Al Beidâwi, adds that the imputation must be true, because this verse was read to the Jews, and they did notcontradict it; which they were ready enough to do in other instances.
That is, notwithstanding their outward submission, they will not abide by thy sentence, though conformable to the law, if it contradict their own false and loose decisions.
They may, however, be applied to hypocrites of all sorts, whose actions contradict their words.
The fact is, you reverend gentlemen contradict in practice what you so vehemently advance in theory.
Christ is not divided, nor do the Apostles contradict one another.
The text cannot mean the absolute prohibition of making images; for in that case God would contradict Himself by commanding in one part of Scripture what He condemns in another.
They seem to clash, to drown and contradict one another; but really they are hesitating and waiting.
Without any appeal, therefore, you may contradict all such as are inconsistent not only with truth, but with probability.
He has never had the generosity, the magnanimity, or the candour to contradict or disavow.
Speak what you think now in hard words; and to-morrow speak what to-morrow thinks in hard words again, though it contradict everything you said to-day.
Why drag about this corpse of your memory, lest youcontradict somewhat you have stated in this or that public place?
He smiled, but did not contradict her, and Beulah sang that exquisite ballad, "Why Do Summer Roses Fade?
It is singular that Gibbon should thus contradicthimself in a few pages.
The mysteries of the Trinity and Incarnation appear to contradict the principle of the divine unity.
Those who contradict others upon all occasions, and make every assertion a matter of dispute, betray, by this behavior, a want of acquaintance with good breeding.
The proverb says that liars need good memories, so as not to contradicttheir own sayings.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "contradict" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
