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contrariwise

[kon-trer-ee-wahyz, kuhn-trair-] / ˈkɒn trɛr iˌwaɪz, kənˈtrɛər- /
ADVERB
crosswise
Synonyms
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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

Boyle believed that by proper chemical analysis he could isolate active components, or, contrariwise, by failing to extract any valuable component, he could eliminate that medicine from use.

From Medical Investigation in Seventeenth Century England Papers Read at a Clark Library Seminar, October 14, 1967 by Bodemer, Charles W.




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