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Contrarily

Contrarily \Con"tra*ri*ly\ (? or ?), adv. In a contrary manner; in opposition; on the other side; in opposite ways.

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contrarily

adv. In a contrary manner; in opposite ways or directions

WordNet
contrarily
  1. adv. in a contrary disobedient manner [syn: perversely, contrariwise]

  2. contrary to expectations; "he didn't stay home; on the contrary, he went out with his friends" [syn: to the contrary, contrariwise, on the contrary]

Usage examples of "contrarily".

This meant, contrarily as his emotions registered, that he was much pleased.

Renny’s face wore a perpetual expression of gloom, and, contrarily, the sadder he looked, the more he was usually enjoying himself.

When he finished he patted her neck, and contrarily she turned her head to nuzzle his chest.

Tripoint mass was complex and tricky, and could give your sensors fits if you didn’t zero it all the way out as you set yourself up as sharing a packet of spacetime with contrarily moving Mariner.

Alan and Francie took charge and kept, contrarily, claiming that the senior captain was on his way.

Tripoint mass was complex and tricky, and could give your sensors fits if you didn't zero it all the way out as you set yourself up as sharing a packet of spacetime with contrarily moving Mariner.

So when, despite my gut felt certainty of doom, we arrive back at the castle uncrashed, not ambushed, and find it hale and whole and everyone within it present and correct, my earlier dread vanishes like mist before the wind, and I feel a curious sense of victory, and even, contrarily, of vindication.

Look to one side, nevertheless, and the star jumps into view as its light strikes rods, f Contrarily, it is because the cones become progressively less numerous away from the macula lutea that we have so little acuity in peripheral vision in daylight.

Yet, contrarily, look where independence had landed the six lost ones!