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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

He has said of "Love and Personality": Personality is always a mystery with its antithetically mingled elements in man and woman.

From The Scrap Book, Volume 1, No. 4 June 1906 by Various

"Very antithetically put, indeed," said Fanny; "but you must excuse me."

From Handy Andy, Volume 2 — a Tale of Irish Life by Samuel Lover

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

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

From William Hickling Prescott by Harry Thurston Peck




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