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

“I never wanted the attention,” she said, somewhat contradictorily.

From New York Times • Dec. 15, 2018

Lawson says he doesn't want to actually write screenplays; the man whose work seems to come from the same DNA wants, somewhat contradictorily, little to do with its bloodline.

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 12, 2016

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

From The New Yorker • Nov. 17, 2014

Here as elsewhere, the Greeks speculated endlessly, contradictorily, emptily, and almost aimlessly.

From The Popes and Science The History of the Papal Relations to Science During the Middle Ages and Down to Our Own Time by Walsh, James J.