contradictorily

Example Sentences

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Punitive damages are meant to sting, Tobias said, so juries tend to award sums proportionate to the defendant’s finances despite many states contradictorily having caps on such awards.

From Washington Post • Aug. 5, 2022

The new film can’t replace that with anything other than a playfully mischievous attitude toward history, as “The King’s Man” makes numerous jabs at colonialism while contradictorily being essentially pro-monarchy.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 22, 2021

What is known is scantily and contradictorily documented, when not purely anecdotal.

From New York Times • Jul. 22, 2020

Yet the form contradictorily holds—dreamy, precise, magical, but always “very definite.”

From The New Yorker • Nov. 17, 2014

The author of the letter from Paris somewhat contradictorily asserts that the women, being superior in Poland, govern the men, but are themselves governed entirely by the priests.

From The Continental Monthly, Vol. 6, No 2, August, 1864 Devoted to Literature and National Policy by Various