contrarily

How To Use contrarily In A Sentence

• I had a sirloin steak, with béarnaise and frites, which they contrarily call chips, and a bit of salad. Times, Sunday Times
• You have an opportunity to demonstrate your power or, contrarily, to bow before the blow that is being struck at you. Secret History of Elizabeth Tudor, Vampire Slayer
• My heart leaped at the thought of such an approach to sudden riches, which I considered myself, however contrarily to the laws of computation, as having missed by a single chance; and I could not forbear to revolve the consequences which such as bounteous allotment would have produced, if it had happened to me. The Rambler, sections 171-208 (1751-1752); The Adventurer, sections 34-108 (1753); from The Works of Samuel Johnson, in Sixteen Volumes, Volume IV
• He makes certain of it by cultivating his anti-personality with a contrarily grim determination. Times, Sunday Times
• Contrarily speaking, researches on the disgorgement of corporation in the corporate law are of insufficiency, at least not systemic.
• Contrarily, it was the loss of power and influence that freed the ambitious, inventive, intellectual middle class. Times, Sunday Times
• It did seem hard that things should go so very "contrarily" sometimes. Little Miss Peggy: Only a Nursery Story
• Or, contrarily, are there any contemporary film-makers whom you would single out as people whose attempts to shock have failed?
• This is not a call to crudely act on behalf of self, rather and contrarily, a simple call to step into universal self, saying let's just make love to the process of it all. Sebastian Siegel: Letting Go to Hold On
• Contrarily, a lack of consistency, or incongruence, between the theoretical principles and the programmatic practices results in a failure of a dual language program to achieve the desired linguistic and academic outcomes.