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contrastingly

adv. In a contrasting manner

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contrastingly

adv. in a contrasting manner; "contrastingly, both the rooms leading off it gave an immediate impression of being disgraced"

Usage examples of "contrastingly".

Masses of ragged dark cloud hurried across the sky and the entire valley was alternatively cast into the deepest shadow or bathed in contrastingly dazzling light as the moon was alternatively obscured by the clouds or shone through the shifting gaps between them.

Brilliant moonshine and a contrastingly almost total darkness had alternated a score of times as the low, tattered, black clouds scudded across the valley, and the cold deepened until it reached down into the bones of the two watchers in the shadows.

Soleta said, contrastingly making no effort whatsoever to keep irony out of her voice.

The arms, contrastingly, were frail-looking, many-jointed, and terminated in eight-fingered hands with a long central thumb.

Finally -- and this is why the present portrait is being drawn -- his right ear, for many years subjected to the lateral pressure of thousands of hundredweight, lay creased and flattened against his head, while contrastingly his left ear protruded mightily in pursuit of its natural bent.

It was real, and what it was made of might be quite prosaic, or contrastingly extraordinary.

Last-well cursed all the way down while everyone else held on and was contrastingly quiet.

With his baby-faced good looks given interest by a contrastingly firm set to his jaw and a slight cruel twist to his mouth, and with thick black hair falling across his forehead, he looked a little like a young Elvis.