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

The new film can’t replace that with anything other than a playfully mischievous attitude toward history, as “The King’s Man” makes numerous jabs at colonialism while contradictorily being essentially pro-monarchy.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 22, 2021

“I never wanted the attention,” she said, somewhat contradictorily.

From New York Times • Dec. 15, 2018

Yet the form contradictorily holds—dreamy, precise, magical, but always “very definite.”

From The New Yorker • Nov. 17, 2014

This principle is that, of every two contradictorily opposed predicates, only one can belong to a conception.

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