antithetically

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The antithetically poor move slower, but in the same direction, stopping at dingy cigarrerias for fat pendulous cigars.

From Time Magazine Archive

Perhaps they satisfied the starved imagination of the New Englander, whose own life was lived amid surroundings antithetically prosaic.

From William Hickling Prescott by Peck, Harry Thurston

In early alliterative poetry it is especially used antithetically with "bliss."

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 2 "Baconthorpe" to "Bankruptcy" by Various

We may imagine, then, that by their exclusion from the circumscribed activities constituting consciousness, these outer activities, though of the same intrinsic nature, become antithetically opposed in aspect.

From A Candid Examination of Theism by Romanes, George John

Here "on its beginning" is set over antithetically against "to torment," whereas the context requires "to its blessedness."

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 3 "Banks" to "Bassoon" by Various