Crossword-Solution: CONTRARINESS
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Contrariness | n. | state or quality of being contrary; opposition; inconsistency; contrariety; perverseness; obstinacy. |
We have 8 clues for the answer “CONTRARINESS”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Frequent topic in marriage counseling | 1 answer |
| lucus a non lucendo | 1 answer |
| DELIBERATE AND STUBBORN UNRULINESS AND RESISTANCE TO GUIDANCE OR DISCIPLINE | 11 answers |
| Defiance | 54 answers |
| antagonism | 78 answers |
| discrepancy | 79 answers |
| contrary | 79 answers |
| Fancy | 122 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
TEERA
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with CONTRARINESS (5)
From sheer contrariness he said that Number Eleven would be “all right if he were rode better,” and the squatter agreed.
Our first night.—Under canvas.—An appeal for help.—Contrariness of tea-kettles, how to overcome.—Supper.—How to feel virtuous.—Wanted! a comfortably-appointed, well-drained desert island, neighbourhood of South Pacific Ocean preferred.—Funny thing that happened to George’s father.—a restless night.
This was done on my suggestion, hoping it would make all content with their peaceable lot; but dominion for a time had been given to the power of contrariness, and it had quite an opposite effect.
From the very start the balls seemed possessed by a demon of contrariness; they trundled about complacently for one player, they would go nowhere for the other.
Despite his contrariness, however, Spillbeans had apparently no intention of allowing the other horses to get completely out of sight.
Quotes with CONTRARINESS (1)
Creative people are constantly surprised. They don’t assume that they understand what is happening around them, and they don’t assume that anybody else does either. They question the obvious — not out of contrariness but because they see the shortcomings of accepted explanations before the rest of us do. They sense problems before they are generally perceived and are able to define what they are.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: NYT.
Used 1 time in crossword archives (1978).