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contrarié in English:

1. demurred demurred


The employees demurred at working overtime.

English word "contrarié"(demurred) occurs in sets:

Fiches du livre - "Life Gleanings" (T. J. Macon)
Fiches du livre - "A Venetian June" (Anna Fuller)
Fiches du livre - "The Last Woman" (Ross Beeckman)
Fiches du livre - "A Kut Prisoner" (H. C. W. Bishop)
Fiches du livre - "Rachel Ray" (Anthony Trollope)

2. countenanced countenanced


Imagine, for the sake of argument, a tribal group in which mother-son incest was countenanced.

English word "contrarié"(countenanced) occurs in sets:

Fiches du livre - "Essays" (David Hume)
Fiches du livre - "May Carols" (Aubrey De Vere)
Fiches du livre - "Witching Hill" (E. W. Hornung)
Fiches du livre - "On Liberty" (John Stuart Mill)
Fiches du livre - "Claverhouse" (Mowbray Morris)

other words beginning with "C"

content in English
contente in English
continuer in English
contre in English
contrôler in English
convaincre in English