Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adverb From a contrasting point of view.
- adverb In the opposite way or reverse order.
- adverb In a perverse manner.
from The Century Dictionary.
- On the contrary; oppositely; on the other hand.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adverb On the contrary; oppositely; on the other hand.
- adverb In a contrary order; conversely.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adverb in the contrary or opposite way, order, or direction
- adverb
on the other hand
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adverb contrary to expectations
- adverb with the order reversed
- adverb in a contrary disobedient manner
Etymologies
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Examples
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A BODY DOUBLE, contrariwise, is a person who takes his clothes off and has his rippling abs and dinner-plate pecs cinematographed, said images to be interespersed with head shots of the star.
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This is where I find myself face to face with a logic that is as "contrariwise" as anything TweedleDee and TweedleDum could debate.
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But, believe me, in "contrariwise," he is flinty obsidian when it comes to his convictions.
The Dead Men's Song Being the Story of a Poem and a Reminiscent Sketch of its Author Young Ewing Allison Champion Ingraham Hitchcock
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Only a system of taking Christ's words "contrariwise" can make them useful as civil rules, and even "oriental exaggeration" can scarcely be credited with saying the diametrically contrary of its real meaning.
The Freethinker's Text Book, Part II. Christianity: Its Evidences, Its Origin, Its Morality, Its History Annie Wood Besant 1890
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And contrariwise, it may be that Senator Schumer is in no position to complain about his colleagues asking Kagan substantive questions.
The Volokh Conspiracy » Kagan’s New View of Confirmation Hearings? 2010
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If either or both had, contrariwise, refused to take part?
Fortune's Stanley Bing: Anthony Weiner, Sarah Palin and the Case Against Apology <i>Fortune</i>'s Stanley Bing 2011
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That said, though, I submit the hypothesis that our Constitutional form of government was framed under the assumption that at least in some important respects, all men are created equal, and that this form of government does not function well if informed by contrariwise ideas.
Dochia On Analytical Egalitarianism, Bryan Caplan | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009
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If either or both had, contrariwise, refused to take part?
Fortune's Stanley Bing: Anthony Weiner, Sarah Palin and the Case Against Apology <i>Fortune</i>'s Stanley Bing 2011
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Or, contrariwise, if you want to blow up a building with nanothermite, then concoct a story about terrorists with nanothermite instead of hijackers.
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And contrariwise, it may be that Senator Schumer is in no position to complain about his colleagues asking Kagan substantive questions.
The Volokh Conspiracy » Kagan’s New View of Confirmation Hearings? 2010
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