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• n  deliberate and stubborn unruliness and resistance to guidance or discipline
• n  a fussy and eccentric disposition

• But Arnault, 48, savors this kind of contrariness like one of his champagnes.
• But Susskind has learned to confine his contrariness large ly to his still running TV talk show.
• Although he ended up going to medical school--more out of contrariness than conviction--he also spent six years studying at a medicine man's shrine.

• perversity
• perverseness
• crankiness
• crotchetiness
• grumpiness

News & Articles

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• Stream Everything the Smiths Ever Did on This Charming Timeline
  The Smiths' self-titled debut album came out 30 years ago in February. It's now March, but to be fair, it simply wouldn't be Morrissey's beloved band if they had marked the anniversary in a timely fashion — any disciple will happily explain to you the contrariness of the Moz discography, with its completist-defying idiosyncrasies...
  March 3, 2014 - Spin