contrarian

contrarian englannista suomeksi

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0. Substantiivi

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contrarian englanniksi

1. A person who likes or tends to express a contradicting viewpoint, especially one who denounces the majority persuasion, usually because of spite or nonconformity.

2. 2010, Martin Amis, ''The Observer'' reprinted in ''The Rub of Time'' (NY: Knopf, 2018), p. 334:

Christopher Hitchens is bored by the epithet ''contrarian'', which has been trailing him around for a quarter of a century. What he is, in any case, is an ''autocontrarian'': he seeks not just the most difficult position, but the most difficult position for Christopher Hitchens.

3. {{quote-book|en|year=2016|author=Sarah Bakewell|title=At the Existentialist Café: Freedom, Being, and Apricot Cocktails|publisher=Other Press|page=17

4. A financial investor who tends to have an opinion of market trends at variance with most others.

5. {{quote-book|en|date=2010-12-17|author=Michael C. Thomsett|title=Getting Started in Stock Investing and Trading|publisher=John Wiley & Sons|isbn=9780470937143|page=174

6. Pertaining to or characteristic of a contrarian.

7. {{quote-book|en|date=2005-01-15|author=Larry Nucci|title=Conflict, Contradiction, and Contrarian Elements in Moral Development and Education|publisher=Psychology Press|isbn=9781135616090

8. {{quote-book|en|date=2012-09-27|author=Raimond Maurer; Olivia S. Mitchell; Mark J. Warshawsky|title=Reshaping Retirement Security: Lessons from the Global Financial Crisis|publisher=Oxford University Press on Demand|isbn=9780199660698|page=115

9. {{quote-book|en|date=2013-02-12|author=Phillip Lopate|title=To Show and to Tell: The Craft of Literary Nonfiction|publisher=Simon and Schuster|isbn=9781451696332