What is "contradicts"

Usage examples of "contradicts".

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.

It contradicts sense, though both the scripture and tradition, on which it is supposed to be built, carry not such evidence with them as sense.