CONTRADICT

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contradict verb A. tranzitiv

1. a contrazice; a tăgădui, a dezminţi, a nega, a contesta.

2. a contrazice, a veni în contradicţie cu, a contraveni (cu dat.), a se bate cap în cap cu, a fi în opoziţie cu;

these rumours contradict each other aceste zvonuri se bat cap în cap.

3. (înv.) a se opune (cu dat.), a se împotrivi (cu dat.), a rezista (la sau cu dat.).

contradict verb B. intranzitiv

a avea spirit de contradicţie.

Exemple de propoziții și/sau fraze:

He said the change was owing to the climate, and she did not contradict him, being glad of a like excuse for her own recovered health and spirits.

(Little Women, de Louisa May Alcott)

He said it, she knew, to be contradicted.

(Persuasion, de Jane Austen)

If you only hope to have your assertion contradicted, as I must suppose to be the case, you ought to recollect that I am the last person in the world to do it.

(Sense and Sensibility, de Jane Austen)

The wedding was no distant event, as the parties had only themselves to please, and nothing but the necessary preparations to wait for; and when he set out for Bath again, there was a general expectation, which a certain glance of Mrs. Cole's did not seem to contradict, that when he next entered Highbury he would bring his bride.

(Emma, de Jane Austen)

Don't contradict.

(David Copperfield, de Charles Dickens)

There was a great deal of good sense in all this; but there are some situations of the human mind in which good sense has very little power; and Catherine's feelings contradicted almost every position her mother advanced.

(Northanger Abbey, de Jane Austen)

You will soon be able to judge of the general credit due, by listening to some particulars which you can yourself immediately contradict or confirm.

(Persuasion, de Jane Austen)

"No, indeed!" replied her cousin, with affected earnestness, "and I beg you will contradict it, if you ever hear it talked of."

(Sense and Sensibility, de Jane Austen)

He could not say that he was sorry on his own account; his very cheerful look would have contradicted him if he had; but he said, and very steadily, that he was sorry for the disappointment of the others, and with considerable kindness added, You, Emma, who have so few opportunities of dancing, you are really out of luck; you are very much out of luck!

(Emma, de Jane Austen)

They are wonderfully virtuous, I dare say—some people contend for that, at least; and I am sure I don't want to contradict them—but they have not very fine natures, and they may be thankful that, like their coarse rough skins, they are not easily wounded.

(David Copperfield, de Charles Dickens)

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