Sentence examples for Contrarily from inspiring English sources

'contrarily' is a correct and usable word in written English.
It is an adverb meaning 'in an opposite or different way'. For example, 'The teacher expected the students to be well-prepared, but contrarily, many of them were not.'.

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Contrarily

adverb

In a contrary manner; in opposite ways or directions

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There's always something delicious round the corner: in addition to the famous city-centre Chinatown, there are mini versions in Richmond and Inner Sunset; or hit Little Saigon in The Tenderloin (contrarily, I came here for Thai at Lers Ros).

Or was he killed in revenge for his role in other assassinations, such as the lorry-bomb killing of the Lebanese leader, Rafik Hariri, in 2005, or, contrarily, in the death of Hizbullah's elusive tactical mastermind, Imad Mughniyeh, whose car blew up last February inside a compound housing Syrian intelligence operatives?Who was General Suleiman, anyway?

In Eurasia, contrarily, hominins disappeared by the beginning of the Pliocene.

In the build up to the game, Director of Sport Matthias Sammer had unleashed one of his habitual rants - somewhat contrarily bemoaning the amount of praise his team were receiving.

It became clear that he favored crafty improvisers and, contrarily, people with big heads and wide eyes, innocents who almost didn't seem to be actors.

Those owners say the brake lights may illuminate when the brake pedal is not depressed and then, somewhat contrarily, not illuminate when the brakes are applied.

In this case, her Coalition, Labor, and Greens opponents – whom Hanson's fellow One Nation candidate Malcolm Roberts says contrarily "are basically working as one and we call them 'them'".

In films such as The Shawshank Redemption to the TV series, The Wire, it is portrayed as a sunny haven of beach huts and boats, and in many other films, alongside a perceived relative lawlessness comes, contrarily, safety.

Yet, contrarily, for once Sky sources continue to say the move is not yet done.

There's an air of effortlessness that's contrarily hard to achieve: salad of roast lamb sounds like a dreary Monday lunch of leftovers, but is wonderfully tender, rosemary-fragranced meat and perky leaves slicked with the umami hum of green herbs and anchovy.

Contrarily, if you're putting a gig on at a "green field" site such as Heaton Park in Manchester or Hyde Park in London it's ridiculously complicated.

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