contrarious

Volumes of report Run with these false, and most contrarious quest Upon thy doings.

It was the son who sang the 'Death of Nelson' under such contrarious circumstances.

On ski slopes, where descent is the operative word, snowshoeing is a goofy-looking, contrarious spectacle.

Part of his wish to wash his hands of life arose from his perception of its contrarious inconsistencies--of Nature's jaunty readiness to support unorthodox social principles.

To Know or Not to Know "Lay off your hand," said the King, "I command you," Barganax met his eyes: seemed to hover an instant betwixt unclear contrarious duties: then obeyed.

If the young master of Gray, for currying favour with you, might fortune to say it, yet old master Melvin hath years enough to teach him more wisdom than to tell a prince of any judgment such a contrarious frivolous maimed reason.

That thou towards him with hand so various, Or might I say contrarious, Temperst thy providence through his short course, Not evenly, as thou rul'st The Angelic orders and inferiour creatures mute, Irrational and brute.