Contravention is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for CONTRAVENTION in dictionary:

NOUN:
• the act of contravening
• an action which offends against a law, treaty, or other ruling
• The act of contravening; opposition; obstruction; transgression; violation.
• coming into conflict with
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• the act of contravening; violation

Words related to CONTRAVENTION

contravene15

Words that contain CONTRAVENTION

contraventions19

How to use CONTRAVENTION in a sentence

• Mike, as he reflected that he had been dragged out of his house in the middle of the night, in contravention of all school rules and discipline, simply in order to satisfy Mr.
• She desires intensely to win, and she will not be above shifting a card or two in contravention of the known rules.
• By way of payment, this poet sent, in contravention of the postal regulations, half a sovereign stuck into a card, asking her to keep the balance against future occasions.
• The kings both of Castile and Portugal, though they did not oppose the papal grant, yet complained of it, as made without their knowledge, and in contravention of their rights.
• I will go to the gendarme for a contravention against that villain.
• This alliance was in contravention of all their ideals.
• The entire contravention of these principles results in bombast or doggerel.
• This was in contravention of the existing treaty with China.
• The letter placed me in an embarrassing position, because its being addressed to me was in contravention of all official propriety.
• No one would have dared to speak a word for the refractory citizens and authorities of Leipsic to the king, nor act in direct contravention to his express orders.
• What seems a miracle, and in contravention of law, is only the constitutional exercise of higher force over forces organized to be swayed.
• It was not enough that the committee had abandoned their report, and added this twenty-first section, in direct contravention of its reasonings and principles.

Similar words containing NTRAVEN without suffix tion and without prefix co

contravene15 contravened17 contravener16 contravenes16 intravenous14 contraveners17 contravening18 intravenously19 intravenouses16 contraventions19 intraventricula20 intraventricular21 intraventricularly26

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