Gainsay

Usage examples of contradict.

Although Delaura had sought the support of distinguished members of his own order and even of other communities, none had dared challenge the acta of the convent or contradict popular credulity.

This contradicts the convention of this book, and is being used in the section on Alberti only to avoid altering his text.

The Minister of War disagreed with Batu, and the older generals knew it would not be prudent to contradict their superior.

She was simply but elegantly attired and coiffured, the kind of woman who might have been designed by a Bauhaus architect, except for her bosom, whose free-flowing volume all but contradicted the severe planes of the rest of her body, impeding her balance, creating such a clashing contrast that, speaking strictly aesthetically, she might have benefited from a double mastectomy.

And yet the former history continues to be studied side by side with the laws of statistics, geography, political economy, comparative philology, and geology, which directly contradict its assumptions.

If injustice is bad for the rebel, it is not because it contradicts an eternal idea of justice, but because it perpetuates the silent hostility that separates the oppressor from the oppressed.

Now it is worth while to pause upon that story because, as has been suggested, it directly contradicts the impression still current that nomadism is merely a prehistoric thing and social settlement a comparatively recent thing.

Philosophers, that the reflection of the Sunne-beames from the earth doth not reach much above halfe a mile high, where they terminate the first region, so that to affirme they might ascend to the moone, were to say, there were but one region of aier, which contradicts the proved and received opinion.

Celarent, simply converted, contradicts the original major premise of Dimaris, and is therefore false.

Please, read the rest, and show me where it contradicts reality as we know it.

Therefore it is the paradox of history that each generation is converted by the saint who contradicts it most.

That contradicts the attitude that we know Jesus had toward women, but it fits well with the Gnostic mind-set.

But the spiritual character of their knowledge of God was gradually obscured, God was dragged into the sphere of sense and lower divinities were associated with Him,--a downward development which absolutely contradicts the Darwinian hypothesis.

What could be said with certainty to contradict his perfectly reasonable and plausible claim of having driven from Deauville to Paris?

Nari and Cook said that his mother made the prettiest dolls in Skala and he saw nothing here to contradict them.