contrariwise
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What about, contrariwise, sweet relish, because somehow a cloying element is desirable with fish?
From Seattle Times ● Jul. 27, 2021
Thrasymachus: I have no reason to speak contrariwise.
From Slate ● Oct. 14, 2014
At the same time, contrariwise, McEwan also wants to locate his novel in what he calls "the family division" of English prose, the "morally centred fiction of George Eliot, Conrad, James and even Austen".
From The Guardian ● Aug. 31, 2014
Casting them contrariwise subverts the clichés in their characters.
From New York Times ● Jun. 10, 2014
For it is the Emperor who is ordained for the Empire, and not contrariwise.
From Dante. An essay. To which is added a translation of De Monarchia. by R. W. (Richard William) Church
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