antithetically

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The antithetically poor move slower, but in the same direction, stopping at dingy cigarrerias for fat pendulous cigars.

From Time Magazine Archive

That he could understand; and, of course, if the other house were antithetically opposed to the Lords, it followed that the House of Commons was not composed of noblesse.

From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 54, No. 333, July 1843 by Various

He has said of "Love and Personality": Personality is always a mystery with its antithetically mingled elements in man and woman.

From The Scrap Book, Volume 1, No. 4 June 1906 by Various

In early alliterative poetry it is especially used antithetically with "bliss."

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 2 "Baconthorpe" to "Bankruptcy" by Various

Here "on its beginning" is set over antithetically against "to torment," whereas the context requires "to its blessedness."

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 3 "Banks" to "Bassoon" by Various