Contradictory used in a sentence

Contradictory in a sentence as a noun

I'm sorry, but that's completely contradictory. The point of the wall is that it blocks things Apple don't approve of.

This affords me the luxury of being a contradictory whine even if I come late to the party! Can anyone confirm or deny my suspicion here?

Here's where I'll risk sounding contradictory: contracts are a crazy beast. Given your circumstances, the "******* sue me" approach probably made sense.

If you are struggling with A* search, and claiming to be a great programmer, it sound contradictory. I am assuming poster was familiar with graphs and graph searches before he stumbled onto A* search.

Thus we end up with strongly held and yet contradictory beliefs. Some people claim that "rebasing is a bad habit: it destroys history" while others claim that "rebasing is a good habit: it prevents repo cruft."

> she was just doing her job > didn't totally understand the technical aspects of what Swartz was accused of doing These are quite entirely contradictory. How can you charge someone for a so-called crime you do not even understand?

From his perspective your views seem contradictory - why are you pro-business and anti-business?

Since doctors have direct contact with patients, and insurance companies don't it's easy for docs to blame insurance companies for unnecessary procedures --- I'm confused by this point, it seems a bit confused and contradictory toward his other points. 4.

The checklist is intentionally overcritical and self-contradictory. The idea here--in my reading at least--is to poke fun at people who bash new programming languages by reducing their criticisms to a thoughtless checklist.

Essentially innocent people, like the property owner, get "stuck" with "it's your problem now" where various agencies give contradictory mandates, backed with fines. How was property owner supposed to respond when told he must get rid of the illegal dwelling, but also told he can't evict the tenant?

Contradictory in a sentence as an adjective

If the Times had collected more rigorous data than Tesla and then cornered them on some claim or other without revealing that they had contradictory data, the Times would be patting themselves on the back for their hard-hitting investigative moxie. But I guess it's a different story when the shoe is on the other foot.

Their private ideology, or whatever guides their actions, is quite obviously contradictory to their publicly espoused beliefs. The Russian and Chinese government are at least pretty direct about their ideology and intentions.

This is typical of the engineer's mindset -- everything which doesn't conform to an archetype or classification system is flawed or contradictory. I'm reading these comments because occasionaly I find something interesting.

If you really look at the two accounts, it's not necessarily clear that they're contradictory except in a couple of statements on speed: he said 55 when he was doing 60; then said 45 when he was doing 50. Even then, it's not clear whether this is human bias or something wrong with the car log, because this data is from the car log and it would be nice to correlate it against that Google Map they have.

What's most impressive about that gift -- focused as it may be by the intensified concentration that his dyslexia demands -- is Boies' uncanny ability to recall a key fact, legal citation or piece of contradictory testimony at moments of the most intense pressure." Time Magazine, "Get me Boies!"

But if there were a thousand flies, all buzzing, to appearance, about the great creature; and, to a fly, declaring, each one for himself, that he was bigger than the quadruped; and all giving different and frequently contradictory reasons; and each one despising and opposing the reasons of the others—I should feel quite at my ease. I should certainly say, My little friends, the case of each one of you is destroyed by the rest.

While I think your response is justified in this specific case given the small sample size, I don't think making two "contradictory" complaints is necessarily wrong in this context. If you make a lot of Type I errors, it might be the cost for reducing Type II errors, and if you make a lot of Type II errors, it might be the cost of reducing Type I errors, but if you make a lot of Type I and Type II errors, then maybe whatever you're doing just sucks.

The documentation is so famously patchy, contradictory and impenetrable that an entire cottage industry of talmudic literature has sprung up around it overnight. I've spent the last two weeks slicing and dicing the developer guide and all the directly related API documentation -- this one-page demo is better than the entire Angular tutorial.

I was just talking about a structural problem that happens when you've already raised some money on a convertible note with a valuation cap, and an investor offers to invest at a lower cap From an author who obviously read that thread she's completely ignoring what he said with crappy statements like this: Considering this comes from a man who just asked his portfolio to blacklist an entire venture firm, this might read as a rather contradictory statement.