Today all the information is wildly contradictory.
Times, Sunday Times (2008)
Perhaps this contradictory nature is the key to its undeniable appeal.
Times, Sunday Times (2007)
You keep telling parents that they lack confidence and bombard them with often contradictory advice.
Times, Sunday Times (2006)
These biases derive from two contradictory but powerful social tendencies.
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To produce a new bonus tax or a complex new set of regulations would seem contradictory.
Times, Sunday Times (2012)
Equally complex and contradictory are her feelings towards her husband.
The Times Literary Supplement (2010)
The leaderboard seemed to be sending out contradictory messages.
Times, Sunday Times (2013)
These apparently contradictory signals are intrinsically linked.
Times, Sunday Times (2012)
It raises a confusing and contradictory series of emotions.
Times, Sunday Times (2008)
Why is there such a welter of often contradictory diet advice?
Times, Sunday Times (2010)
There are two slightly contradictory factors in play.
Times, Sunday Times (2014)
That the two imperatives may be contradictory seems not to occur.
Times, Sunday Times (2009)
The contradictory messages and parallel lobbying efforts have angered administration officials.
Times, Sunday Times (2014)
But there is also a good chance that you will find contradictory signals.
Times, Sunday Times (2013)
What a beautiful and contradictory piece of advice.
Times, Sunday Times (2013)
The problem is an engaging one because we have two somewhat contradictory pieces of evidence.
The Times Literary Supplement (2014)
In some ways this seems a contradictory philosophy for a musician.
Times, Sunday Times (2015)
The complex and contradictory nature of Wellington himself is evident away from the public portraits.
Times, Sunday Times (2015)
The reality is that most people have a complex, sometimes contradictory attitude to government.
Times, Sunday Times (2012)
The environmentalist movement itself has its own confusing and contradictory alliances with the Left.
Christianity Today (2000)
It was the press who probably felt most keenly his enigmatic, contradictory nature.
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Better try interpreting something less complex and contradictory, such as the back of your hand.
Times, Sunday Times (2008)
Often the information is contradictory.
Times, Sunday Times (2012)
It is hard to avoid the contemporary parallels in this lively biography, which brings this hugely contradictory character very much to life.
Times, Sunday Times (2012)
What followed appears to be a series of lost or mislaid documents, delays, and contradictory information.
Times, Sunday Times (2008)
In other languages
contradictory
British English: contradictory ADJECTIVE
If two or more facts, ideas, or statements are contradictory, they state or imply that opposite things are true.
Customs officials have made a series of contradictory statements about the equipment.
American English: contradictory
Brazilian Portuguese: contraditório
Chinese: 相互矛盾的事实、观点、陈述等
European Spanish: contradictorio
French: contradictoire
German: widersprüchlich
Italian: contraddittorio
Japanese: 矛盾した
Korean: 모순된
European Portuguese: contraditório
Latin American Spanish: contradictorio
(adjective)
Definition
(of facts or statements) inconsistent
He seems to be capable of holding a number of apparently contradictory attitudes.
Synonyms
inconsistent
The outburst was inconsistent with the image he had cultivated.
conflicting
There are conflicting reports on the severity of his injuries.
opposed
people with views almost diametrically opposed to his own
opposite
Everything he does is opposite to what is considered normal behaviour.
contrary
His sister was of the contrary opinion to his.
incompatible
Their interests were mutually incompatible.
paradoxical
It seems paradoxical that some people who claim to be animal lovers still promote fox-hunting.
irreconcilable
their irreconcilable points of view
antithetical
The oppressive use of power is antithetical to our ideals.