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Significados de contrariness em inglês

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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 em inglês
              1
              The innate contrariness of things seemed to be blocking all his plans.
              Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Volume 05 / Little J...
              2
              It seems that the artistic personality has a certain contrariness to it.
              Corduroy mansions
              3
              Nevertheless the British soldiers, with characteristic contrariness, declared their preference for it.
              The River War: An Account of the Reconquest of the Sudan
              4
              Jack ran away of his own free-will, and out of downright contrariness.
              Mary Anerley: A Yorkshire Tale
              5
              There is at least as much contrariness in your character as in mine.
              Jonathan strange and mr norrell
              6
              Beatrix says that it is just because of my innate contrariness.
              Lucy Maud Montgomery Short Stories, 1902 to 1903
              7
              It might be sheer contrariness, but it stuck me as odd.
              The Man from the Clouds
              8
              For contrariness he was more than I have ever had to deal with.
              The Celebrity, Volume 04
              9
              What contrariness has set you so intense against your own argument?
              The Crisis — Complete
              10
              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...
              11
              Just as if girls went into hard and trying occupations from mere contrariness!
              The Trade Union Woman
              12
              The always-wide-awake-contrariness of womankind is a curious and fearful thing.
              At the Mercy of Tiberius
              13
              Yet I profess to have a reason beyond mere contrariness.
              Sally Bishop: A Romance
              14
              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...
              15
              In August, Coffin wrote to Mix that The contrariness and (cont.)
              The American Indian as Participant in the Civil War
              16
              I think of the contrariness of Nan Toner, negotiating roadblocks on her way to Dundalk.
              The Guardian
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