See contrarian on Wiktionary
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"text": "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.",
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},
{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "liking or tending to express a contradicting viewpoint, especially from one held by a majority of people",
"word": "controcorrente"
},
{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "liking or tending to express a contradicting viewpoint, especially from one held by a majority of people",
"word": "fuori dal coro"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "having an opinion of market trends at variance with most others",
"word": "vastavirtainen"
}
],
"word": "contrarian"
}
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