contrariwise

Example Sentences

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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

This is not, O Cho-Ling-Kyang! a barbarian land, as in our foolish childhood we were taught; but, contrariwise, great is the wisdom of the English, and great their skill.

From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 57, No. 354, April 1845 by Various