Sentence examples for being contrary from inspiring English sources

This isn't Stanley being contrary.

Surely, he is just being contrary.

"They didn't want to follow convention, they were just contrary for the sake of being contrary".

At the D'Antoni kitchen table, being contrary was as natural as asking for second helpings.

I am not seeking to criticise the campaign for the sake of being contrary.

And this is not just me being contrary or unnecessarily edgy.

Being contrary sometimes seemed as important to her as being right.

"And I wanted to write something about not wanting to remember – just because I like being contrary to myself".

Villarreal's coach, sometimes over-excited schoolboy, other times a stern school master, seems to enjoy being contrary.

But it's not my goal to get my name in the newspaper because of my being contrary to Sharpe James.

The news media in this country are often accused of being contrary and pessimistic, but rarely is that the case.