0 the quality of being someone who intentionally wants to disagree with and annoy other people -- 乖戾；故意作對；執拗
However, in this case, there is a strange contrariness in the so-called formula.
This was not in a spirit of mere contrariness.
She's funny from line to line, but there is little to her besides tin-pot contrariness.
Throughout her life she exhibits stubbornness and contrariness, generally doing whatever the people who love her "don't" want her to do.
Saunders had a reputation for brilliance, contrariness, and eccentricity.
