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Significados de contrariness en inglés

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Deliberate and stubborn unruliness and resistance to guidance or discipline.

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A fussy and eccentric disposition.

Uso de contrariness en inglés
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The innate contrariness of things seemed to be blocking all his plans.
Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Volume 05 / Little J...
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It seems that the artistic personality has a certain contrariness to it.
Corduroy mansions
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Nevertheless the British soldiers, with characteristic contrariness, declared their preference for it.
The River War: An Account of the Reconquest of the Sudan
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Jack ran away of his own free-will, and out of downright contrariness.
Mary Anerley: A Yorkshire Tale
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There is at least as much contrariness in your character as in mine.
Jonathan strange and mr norrell
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Beatrix says that it is just because of my innate contrariness.
Lucy Maud Montgomery Short Stories, 1902 to 1903
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It might be sheer contrariness, but it stuck me as odd.
The Man from the Clouds
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For contrariness he was more than I have ever had to deal with.
The Celebrity, Volume 04
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What contrariness has set you so intense against your own argument?
The Crisis — Complete
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It's all due to de contrariness ob Boomerang, an' if I-
Tom Swift and His Motor-Cycle; Or, Fun and Adventures on the Roa...
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Just as if girls went into hard and trying occupations from mere contrariness!
The Trade Union Woman
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The always-wide-awake-contrariness of womankind is a curious and fearful thing.
At the Mercy of Tiberius
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Yet I profess to have a reason beyond mere contrariness.
Sally Bishop: A Romance
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To dream of an overcoat, denotes you will suffer from contrariness, exhibited by others.
Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What's in a Dream / A Scien...
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In August, Coffin wrote to Mix that The contrariness and (cont.)
The American Indian as Participant in the Civil War
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I think of the contrariness of Nan Toner, negotiating roadblocks on her way to Dundalk.
The Guardian
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