Contradictory

(noun.) two propositions are contradictories if both cannot be true (or both cannot be false) at the same time.

(adj.) unable to be both true at the same time .

(adj.) of words or propositions so related that both cannot be true and both cannot be false; '`perfect' and `imperfect' are contradictory terms' .

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• Now, really, Dodo, said Celia, with rather a deeper guttural than usual, you _are_ contradictory: first one thing and then another. 乔治·艾略特. 米德尔马契.
• He stared after her in a turmoil of contradictory feelings. 伊迪丝·华顿. 纯真年代.
• The witnesses were stupid and unreliable and contradictory, as witnesses always are. 马克·吐温. 傻子出国记.
• A system so various in its structure has many contradictory aspects, some very attractive, and some very repellent to a liberal intelligence. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• But can anything be imagined more absurd and contradictory than this reasoning? 戴维·休谟. 人性论.
• This is verbally self-contradictory, but only verbally. 约翰·杜威. 民主与教育.
• But it must be confessed, that this mixture seems at first sight to be contradictory to my system. 戴维·休谟. 人性论.
• The fact that this culture is multiform and often contradictory is a sign that more and more of the interests of life are finding expression. 沃尔特·李普曼. 政治序论.
• Never mind what I make it, my friend, observed Mr. Jaggers, with a knowing and contradictory toss of his head. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 远大前程.
• Do you mean to say I possess all these contradictory qualities at one and the same time? 弗格斯·休姆. 奇幻岛.
• Contradictory things to wish,' said Bella, 'but my life and fortunes are so contradictory altogether that what can I expect myself to be! 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.
• What contradictory attributes of character we sometimes find ascribed to us, according to the eye with which we are viewed! 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 维莱特.
• Stoical, but contradictory. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.
• Each one carries along a quantity of inert and outworn ideas,--not infrequently there is an internally contradictory current. 沃尔特·李普曼. 政治序论.
• Among his other contradictory decorations he had the hat of a bishop and the little gloves of a baby. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 荒凉山庄.

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