The public is being fed contradictory messages about the economy.contradictorycon‧tra‧dic‧to‧ry /ˌkɒntrəˈdɪktəri◂ $ ˌkɑːn-/ ●●○ AWL adjective 
The public is being fed contradictory messages about the economy.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER DICTIONARIES
- Upon further questioning, the witnesses gave inconsistent and sometimes contradictory answers.
- Candidates must make decisions quickly, sometimes with little or contradictory information.
- Case said these seemingly contradictory deals were simple exercises in economic balance of power.
- His policies, especially in the first two years of his presidency, often have been confusing and contradictory.
- If I took any of this particularly seriously I would risk suffering from nutritional whiplash, pursuing health in precisely contradictory binges.
- Moreover. such goals that can be indicated are frequently vague, multiple and contradictory.
- Recently, I have begun to notice another phenomenon: contradictory placenames.
- The result is, as we have seen, a difficult and sometimes contradictory compromise.
COLLOCATIONS FROM THE ENTRY The public is being fed contradictory messages about the economy.COLLOCATIONS FROM THE CORPUSADVERB
The public is being fed contradictory messages about the economy.· Explanations for these apparently contradictory tendencies will not be found by taking an instrumental approach to family law.· Which of these apparently contradictory views is nearer to the truth?· Williams was a man who was able to hold many apparently contradictory ideas in harmony.· Had this apparently contradictory programme been worked out over a long period, it might have seemed more logical.· Both of these apparently contradictory statements are obviously true, but only at the level of empirical observation.· I think that what links those two apparently contradictory aspects is precisely a concern with morality.
· Attitudes to addiction are complicated and often contradictory.· Sam assigned a team to organize the ideas into categories and make sense out of the wide-ranging and often contradictory criticisms.· Indeed, there exists an equally strong, and in this context often contradictory, philosophical premiss, that of paternalism.· Here the data are often contradictory and difficult to interpret.· The evidence here is often contradictory, and suggests that in practice, there were variations in what was asked of women.· These influences are strong, and often contradictory.· With regard to the search for consensus the results are often contradictory.· First, these needs were themselves ambiguous and often contradictory.
· Many of these seemingly contradictory properties of the agents are related to dose.· The editors of Consumer Reports Travel Letter thus were struck by the seemingly contradictory results of three recent airline quality reports.· With these two seemingly contradictory attitudes in mind, underline all the adjectives you've used.· The new account of his life shows a complex and at times seemingly contradictory person.· Case said these seemingly contradictory deals were simple exercises in economic balance of power.
· The result is, as we have seen, a difficult and sometimes contradictory compromise.· Details of Dixon's life are sparse and sometimes contradictory.· The aims of education or complex and sometimes contradictory.· Their position is complex, sometimes contradictory and occasionally uncomfortable.· The ambiguity of something so ill-defined argued for on such different, and sometimes contradictory grounds, needs serious analysis.· Gender identities are ways of life, multi-faceted and sometimes contradictory.
NOUN· The contradictory demands of justifying and criticizing national prejudice can be seen in the everyday discourse of racism.
· Very often in our work we give contradictory messages.
· These arguments provide the foundation for Simmel's account of the contradictory nature of modern life.· Have you had this contradictory nature for very long?· They may be more aware of the contradictory nature of their actual relationship with the texts they read.· It is the contradictory nature of humankind that makes the struggle with evil so complicated.· The contradictory nature of the process allows for no ultimate resolution.
· In addition each of the gospels contains contradictory statements about the same event.· Vague, contradictory statements of intent are not enough.· Both of these apparently contradictory statements are obviously true, but only at the level of empirical observation.· He was acquitted on May 25, 1990, largely because of contradictory statements by witnesses.
WORD FAMILYnouncontradictionadjectivecontradictoryverbcontradict
two statements, beliefs etc that are contradictory are different and therefore cannot both be true or correctcontradictory messages/statements/demands etc The public is being fed contradictory messages about the economy.