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In the opposite way; perversely.

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Usage examples (29)
  • But, believe me, in "contrariwise," he is flinty obsidian when it comes to his convictions.
  • This is where I find myself face to face with a logic that is as "contrariwise" as anything TweedleDee and TweedleDum could debate.
  • That which, contrariwise, believed in the eventual success of the
  • Joe, contrariwise, counted all this child's-play an interruption.
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