A relation of direct opposition

Usage examples of contrary.

But as Adams found, Dutch talk of financial support and an actual Dutch loan were decidedly different matters, his initial high expectations to the contrary.

CONTRARY TO THE expectations of nearly everyone, Adams did not ask for a declaration of war against France.

On the contrary, it is extremely probable that they were an Algonkin totem, which had the exclusive right to the priesthood.

Laxus bearing a kings name do puffe himself up alledging he wan the sefight but I shall satisfy your Majestie to the contrary.

And, with all due respect, Mademoiselle Alphonsine is not a slut, just the contrary, and she came here not to see you but to pay a visit to my wife, with whom she is acquainted.

Or, on the contrary, would such animals be peculiarly liable to sudden death from the effects of the chloroform?

We believe, on the contrary, that many, if not all, of the higher species of animals, especially those nearest to man in structure and intelligence, receive, when subjected to the torment of fire or steel, precisely the same sensations that, under a like infliction, a human being would suffer.

On the contrary, there is a most notable fact in relation to experiments under chloroform made on lower animals, which suggests that if they had ever been relied on,--chloroform would never have been introduced into practice.

I am not sorry to know that you love one another and that you make each other happy, as this beautiful casino proves to me, she does not regret our love, and she is, on the contrary, delighted to shew us that she approves of it.

If, on the contrary, we study the growth of the Roman republic, we may discover that, notwithstanding the incessant demands of wars and colonies, the citizens, who, in the first census of Servius Tullius, amounted to no more than eighty-three thousand, were multiplied, before the commencement of the social war, to the number of four hundred and sixty-three thousand men, able to bear arms in the service of their country.

He also stated that, unless there was some evidence to the contrary, one should assume that atoms combine in the simplest possible manner.

On the contrary, his idea was significant because it was a theory that explained how chemical compounds are formed and because the idea of atoms with different relative weights made it possible to turn chemistry into a quantitative science.

Phineas Babbitt, on the contrary, had at first upheld the policy of strict neutrality.

Away in the backblocks, on the contrary, one becomes a mere machine, grinding through hard tasks--not a pleasant change while so much is going on.

I am aware you have taken matters in hand belowstairs, despite my orders to the contrary.