What is "contrarians"

Usage examples of "contrarians".

Bernard Goldberg writing in the Wall Street Journal, quoted in Greg Pierce, “Bad Day for Contrarians,” “Washington Times, May 25, 2001.

The spectators began jumping up and down and screaming for blood—and, being contrarians, the elephants attacked the spectators instead of the Jews, proving once and for all that you can’t trust a pachyderm.

The spectators began jumping up and down and screaming for blood–and, being contrarians, the elephants attacked the spectators instead of the Jews, proving once and for all that you can’t trust a pachyderm.

Even the contrarians at Interpol, the international clearinghouse for police information, agreed with us.

Bernard Goldberg writing in the Wall Street Journal, quoted in Greg Pierce, "Bad Day for Contrarians," "Washington Times, May 25, 2001.