contrariness in the PONS Dictionary

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Key was lucky that when he courted the public's contrariness by referendum, it was for a more trivial issue: our national flag.
www.scoop.co.nz
Tales of her temper and contrariness abound.
www.telegraph.co.uk
This despite their childishness, all their petulance and profundity, all their (in a word) contrariness.
www.themillions.com
For both his talent and contrariness he gets his teleworking wish.
www.rte.ie
People complain about everything under the sun, contrariness is a fact of life.
nation.com.pk
It isn't just contrariness that young artists are producing such "accessible" art.
www.independent.co.uk
Formal structures, in my view, in this context, can produce conflict, contrariness, and can be counterproductive.
www.democracynow.org
She's funny from line to line, but there is little to her besides tin-pot contrariness.
en.wikipedia.org
I picked up some of his contrariness.
thequietus.com
Not on any prospect of contrariness, mind.
www.independent.ie

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