antithetically

Example Sentences

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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

Perhaps they satisfied the starved imagination of the New Englander, whose own life was lived amid surroundings antithetically prosaic.

From William Hickling Prescott by Peck, Harry Thurston

I'm ambitious, in a way; but when that way requires me to leave the people—the things—that I love, then ambition chameleonizes and I become ambitious antithetically.

From A Fool There Was by Browne, Porter Emerson

"Very antithetically put, indeed," said Fanny; "but you must excuse me."

From Handy Andy, Volume 2 — a Tale of Irish Life by Lover, Samuel

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