How To Use Contrariwise In A Sentence

  • He dare not turn the wheel contrariwise.
  • Preacher by his life to giue good example, a Iudge to be incorrupted, solitarie and vnacqainted with Courtiers or Courtly entertainements, & as the Philosopher saith _Oportet iudicem esse rudem & simplicem_, without plaite or wrinkle, sower in looke and churlish in speach, contrariwise a The Arte of English Poesie
  • You can only vote if you are a member. Contrariwise, not all members have the right to vote.
  • He gives permission, and, contrariwise, she refuses it.
  • Contrariwise, the Yiddish haimish means “homely” but is a compliment, suggesting home cooking for food and a homebody for a person who does not long for dancing in nightclubs or trips to spas. The Right Word in the Right Place at the Right Time
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  • But contrariwise it was an essential part of corporate liberty that it was open to negotiation.
  • With respect to men in other stations of life he is pleased to say, it is decent for a priest "to be sober and sad;" "a judge to be incorrupted, solitary, and unacquainted with courtiers or courtly entertainments ... without plait or wrinkle, sour in look and churlish in speech; contrariwise a courtly gentleman to be lofty and curious in countenance, yet sometimes a creeper and a curry favell with his superiors. Memoirs of the Court of Queen Elizabeth
  • If either or both had, contrariwise, refused to take part? Fortune's Stanley Bing: Anthony Weiner, Sarah Palin and the Case Against Apology
  • This is where I find myself face to face with a logic that is as "contrariwise" as anything TweedleDee and TweedleDum could debate. Kim Stagliano: The Jabberwocky World of an Autism Mom
  • Madeline, contrariwise, insisted on joining me in the search for food.
  • Bot contrariwise the stubburne, inobedient, cruell oppressours, filthie personis, idolaters, and all such sortes of unfaithfull, sal be cast in the dungeoun of utter darkenesse, where their worme sall not die, nether zit their fyre sall bee extinguished. The Creeds of the Evangelical Protestant Churches.
  • And contrariwise, it may be that Senator Schumer is in no position to complain about his colleagues asking Kagan substantive questions. The Volokh Conspiracy » Kagan’s New View of Confirmation Hearings?
  • But, believe me, in "contrariwise," he is flinty obsidian when it comes to his convictions. The Dead Men's Song Being the Story of a Poem and a Reminiscent Sketch of its Author Young Ewing Allison
  • Only a system of taking Christ's words "contrariwise" can make them useful as civil rules, and even "oriental exaggeration" can scarcely be credited with saying the diametrically contrary of its real meaning. The Freethinker's Text Book, Part II. Christianity: Its Evidences, Its Origin, Its Morality, Its History
  • a charge of a metal must rest upon a field that is of a colour or fur; or, contrariwise, that a charge of a colour must rest on a field that is of a metal or fur, -- that is, that _metal be not on metal, nor colour on colour_. The Handbook to English Heraldry
  • Contrariwise, people who defended the British treatment of the Boers justified it on the grounds that the Boers were a bunch of bloodthirsty barbarians who would quickly re-enslave the Africans if they got the chance (which, in fact, happened). Matthew Yglesias » Israel Deserves Better Defenders Than Andrew Roberts
  • Not rendering evil for evil, or railing for railing: but contrariwise blessing; knowing that ye are thereunto called, that ye should inherit a blessing.
  • The very best instructor for students may have no conception of the higher lines of work in his branch, and contrariwise, how many brilliant investigators have been wretched teachers?
  • That said, though, I submit the hypothesis that our Constitutional form of government was framed under the assumption that at least in some important respects, all men are created equal, and that this form of government does not function well if informed by contrariwise ideas. Dochia On Analytical Egalitarianism, Bryan Caplan | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty
  • Contrariwise, her elders could have used a lesson or two in deportment. SOMETHING IN THE WATER
  • But contrariwise it was an essential part of corporate liberty that it was open to negotiation.
  • He always gives permission; she, contrariwise, always refuses it.
  • Till today, she still contrariwise makes raw material trade only, assure income with this.
  • Or, contrariwise, if you want to blow up a building with nanothermite, then concoct a story about terrorists with nanothermite instead of hijackers. 1000 Architects and Engineers
  • Paradoxically, he then offers a contrariwise view of what differentiates American and Continental strategy on achieving a worthy and just international order.
  • You can only vote if you are a member. Contrariwise, not all members have the right to vote.
  • The synthesis of the imagination in apprehension would only present to us each of these perceptions as present in the subject when the other is not present, and contrariwise; but would not show that the objects are coexistent, that is to say, that, if the one exists, the other also exists in the same time, and that this is necessarily so, in order that the perceptions may be capable of following each other reciprocally. The Critique of Pure Reason
  • Contrariwise, juries may convict where the judicial decision-maker would find the evidence insubstantial.
  • a charge of a metal must rest upon a field that is of a colour or fur; or, contrariwise, that a charge of a colour must rest on a field that is of a metal or fur, -- that is, that _metal be not on metal, nor colour on colour_. The Handbook to English Heraldry
  • I had thought it should apay [gratify] her to know the same; but my words had the contrariwise effect, for she looked more frightened than afore. In Convent Walls The Story of the Despensers
  • A BODY DOUBLE, contrariwise, is a person who takes his clothes off and has his rippling abs and dinner-plate pecs cinematographed, said images to be interespersed with head shots of the star. Let's welcome John Grisham!

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