contradictory attitude
collocation in Englishmeaningsofcontradictoryandattitude
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contradictory
adjective
uk/ˌkɒn.trəˈdɪk.tər.i/us/ˌkɑːn.trəˈdɪk.tɚ.i/
If two or more facts, pieces of advice, etc. are contradictory, they are very different from ...
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attitude
noun
uk/ˈæt.ɪ.tʃuːd/us/ˈæt̬.ə.tuːd/
a feeling or opinion about something or someone, or a way of behaving that is caused ...
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A political labyrinth emerged from thiscontradictoryattitude.
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That should make us think about society'scontradictoryattitude.
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I think thiscontradictoryattitudeis partially responsible for the lack of facilities.
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In point of fact, he went on to say that although they are very good they should not have more cases to deal with, which is quite acontradictoryattitude.
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That is an extraordinarilycontradictoryattitude.
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If we think about that we can understand that society is capable of getting itself into a difficult position because of its ambivalent andcontradictoryattitude.
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In reality many, apparently initially contradictory attitudes, can be made to 'hang together' by greater elaboration.
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The resulting 'play' between the music and the lyric could convey complicated layers of meaning and contradictory attitudes of overlapping personae.
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It is interesting that these contradictory attitudes towards noise exist because noise is the ultimate ambiguity.
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Individual members may express seemingly contradictory attitudes.
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It shows the varied circumstances under which the poor 'encountered' the poor law in the seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries, highlighting the often contradictory attitudes that poor people encountered.
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Those seem to me to be contradictory attitudes to take.
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