Inconsistencies
[,inkən'sistənsiz]
Definition
(pl. ) of Inconsistency
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Examples
- If the same scholastic method is in force there, all that would be needed to crush socialism is to show its dogmatic inconsistencies. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- It is full of inconsistencies, and though borrowed from Plato, shows but a superficial acquaintance with his writings. Plato. The Republic.
- I'm interested in other people's experiences and inconsistencies, and though I can't explain, I remember and use them for my own benefit. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
- It is necessary to keep these inconsistencies of John's character in view, that the reader may understand his conduct during the present evening. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
- This must be one of Nature's inconsistencies. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- Follies and nonsense, whims and inconsistencies, _do_ divert me, I own, and I laugh at them whenever I can. Jane Austen. Pride and Prejudice.
- Inconsistencies, answered Imlac, cannot both be right, but imputed to man they may both be true. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
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