contradictorily

Example Sentences

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Punitive damages are meant to sting, Tobias said, so juries tend to award sums proportionate to the defendant’s finances despite many states contradictorily having caps on such awards.

From Washington Post • Aug. 5, 2022

What is known is scantily and contradictorily documented, when not purely anecdotal.

From New York Times • Jul. 22, 2020

Lawson says he doesn't want to actually write screenplays; the man whose work seems to come from the same DNA wants, somewhat contradictorily, little to do with its bloodline.

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 12, 2016

That’s the kind of tricky balancing act that Going Into the City beautifully, profoundly, naively, contradictorily, romantically, kinetically, jokily, cockily, fearfully, drunkenly, goofily, impudently—if, alas, only occasionally—manages to pull off.

From Slate • Mar. 4, 2015

Change is the connection of determinations contradictorily opposed to each other in the existence of one and the same thing.

From The Critique of Pure Reason by Meiklejohn, John Miller Dow