How to Use contradictory in a Sentence

contradictory

adjective

• March 1—15: Events leading up to the full Moon of the 7th will be a bit contradictory, so don’t take anything too much to heart.
  — Katharine Merlin, Town & Country, 1 Mar. 2023
• The two-ounce bottle is easy to stash on the go, though the directions are a bit contradictory.
  — Rachel Chang, Condé Nast Traveler, 23 Jan. 2023
• Flex works best when Jones gives the teammates more room to be messy and contradictory.
  — Vulture, 20 July 2023
• Well, the dog leaped over a tall fence, which seems to be perhaps contradictory to being lazy.
  — Lance Eliot, Forbes, 22 Feb. 2024
• But the answers generated by the tool are at times contradictory based on how users prompt and query the software.
  — Mia Sato, The Verge, 15 Aug. 2023
• But the contradictory messages, on the internet as in the world at large, reflect more than the varying demands for sleep.
  — Megan Garber, The Atlantic, 12 Oct. 2023
• But this promise has merely slid next to a contradictory one—that the party will reduce the deficit and balance the budget.
  — Alex Shephard, The New Republic, 28 Mar. 2023
• This need not be contradictory: The aggregate and the components don’t have to agree.
  — Mike Sommers, Fortune Europe, 1 Feb. 2024
• The contradictory cooling effect of spicy foods One place to start is to explore how heat influences diets in warmer parts of the world.
  — Alice Park, Time, 20 July 2023
• Haley wrote in a Wall Street Journal op-ed that her comments about Trump were not contradictory.
  — Bridget Bowman, NBC News, 14 Feb. 2023
• In the near-century since, the Academy has grappled with the sometimes contradictory lures of art and commerce.
  — Michael Schulman, The New Yorker, 23 Jan. 2024
• While some see it as a hopeful sign of progress, others have dismissed it as contradictory lip service.
  — Catherine Porter, New York Times, 25 Jan. 2024
• But Korem made clear to Morvan and other sources his intent to explore the many often contradictory sides of the story.
  — Lisa Wong MacAbasco, Vogue, 24 Oct. 2023
• Through comedy, these actors have found the freedom to be contradictory, to not have it all together and to be a little messy.
  — Sophia Scorziello, Variety, 7 June 2023
• This rise in greenhouse gases, of course, warmed the climate, although the SO2 had a contradictory cooling effect.
  — WIRED, 28 Sep. 2023
• The orders, for a unit of the 26th Tank Regiment, were oddly overconfident, to the point of being contradictory.
  — Thomas Gibbons-Neff, New York Times, 16 Dec. 2022
• Itamar Rabinovich: The British made a lot of contradictory promises during the war.
  — Emily Bazelon, New York Times, 1 Feb. 2024
• The death threats continued, as did the flow of contradictory and even false information.
  — John Leland, SPIN, 25 Feb. 2023
• Their statements were contradictory, including the ones from the boy who allegedly made the comment.
  — Dallas News, 3 Mar. 2023
• There are so many opinions and contradictory advice, not to mention judgment for days!
  — L'oreal Thompson Payton, Fortune, 17 Dec. 2022
• The paper also helps explain the decades of contradictory findings.
  — Laura Dattaro, Quanta Magazine, 18 Oct. 2023
• But information about the scope of the assaults and their toll has been minimal, and sometimes contradictory.
  — Anton Troianovski, New York Times, 28 July 2023
• But his life was too contradictory to be resolved so cleanly.
  — Kelly Lawler, USA TODAY, 25 May 2023
• The video, and the contradictory police testimony that gave the impression of a cover-up, sparked anger among some French citizens and led to the first demonstrators.
  — Peter Aitken, Fox News, 2 July 2023
• While this might strike me as contradictory, my dive into the modern cake-mix market reveals that, for many cooks today, this state of affairs is normal.
  — Charlotte Druckman, Charlotte Observer, 31 Jan. 2024
• This represents a whole new–and contradictory–set of challenges.
  — Philipp Carlsson-Szlezak, Fortune, 15 Mar. 2023
• Williams sticks to an earthy color palette to keep the vignette cohesive rather than contradictory.
  — Anna Fixsen, ELLE Decor, 11 Aug. 2023
• Adding to the general air of intrigue this time around are the seemingly contradictory statements coming out of the Brazil camp on when exactly Neymar might return to the field.
  — Jonathan Clegg, WSJ, 27 Nov. 2022
• There were constant omissions and contradictory accounts.
  — Deborah Treisman, The New Yorker, 19 Feb. 2024
• Hotels are strange, contradictory, but often wonderful places.
  — Alan Sepinwall, Rolling Stone, 29 Mar. 2024

Last Updated: 5 Sep 2024