Learn How to Pronounce CONTRARY – CONTRARY in a Sentence
Learn how to pronounce CONTRARY correctly by understanding the syllables. Then see CONTRARY in a sentence along with an illustration as a memory aid.
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The word CONTRARY is an adjective. It consists of 3 syllables.
Stress the 1st syllable.
It’s pronounced CON◦truh-ree
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CONTRARY
Definition:
something opposite in purpose, position or direction
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In the illustrated sentence example we see a cat standing astride a sink trying to drink water.
The sentence reads: CONTRARY to popular belief, many cats do not like drinking milk.
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Examples of CONTRARY from news items:
He is one of the most often performed composers, CONTRARY to what was promised by a lot of his critical contemporaries.
Source: New York Times
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/04/03/arts/music/rachmaninoff-150-kirill-gerstein.html
Jones said the loss to the 49ers didn’t change his outlook with McCarthy, who has always shrugged off talk to the CONTRARY.
Source: Washington Post
https://www.washingtonpost.com/sports/nfl/cowboys-move-on-from-6-mccarthy-assistants-on-expiring-deals/2023/01/26/577fafc2-9d9d-11ed-93e0-38551e88239c_story.html
Yet race or colonial studies research departments don’t exist in French universities, because they are seen as CONTRARY to French universalism.
Source: Seattle Times
https://www.seattletimes.com/business/tensions-over-race-religion-in-frances-presidential-race/
Those who disregard CONTRARY evidence and cling to their professed beliefs for emotional reasons will display this through unstable behavior, including reacting with hostility to any outside information that challenges them.
Source: Salon
https://www.salon.com/2023/04/09/how-to-deal-with-chronically-stubborn-people/
“I think the criticisms of the family were not something personal. It was pointing that they have a bias, that they have a political interest that is CONTRARY to President Trump’s.”
Source: Washington Times
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2023/apr/9/donald-trump-attorney-jim-trusty-criticisms-judge-/
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