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em frente Contrary to expectations; on the contrary, he went out with his friends"
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These oddball science fiction flops are original in sometimes perversely derivative ways.
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The rise of Trump has led, perversely, to the revival of Obama.
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Oh, she's a viper, yes, and, perversely, Rodrigo admires her for it.
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I do not believe that humanity is perversely astray, hurrying to destruction.
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Adieu, my dearest Susan, I wish matters did not go so perversely.
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I feel exhausted, sure, but contrarily swell about myself, like the best daughter.
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It behaves in this respect quite contrarily to a metallic conductor.
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Is there anything you dislike in me that you act so contrarily to my wishes?
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It seems that Hen's more than contrarily stubborn lately.
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This is true of the eccentricities, but Mars's orbit plane, contrarily, has a small inclination.
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He said the Government would present a scientific opinion to the contrary.
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But most of the empirical evidence thus far points to the contrary.
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That's often not the case with you, despite appearances to the contrary.
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Despite arguments to the contrary, he played rather well in South Africa.
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Despite all the evidence to the contrary, he knew this was true.
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The Senate, on the contrary, lost both in power and in prestige.
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Not the least in the world: on the contrary, a confirmed mystic.
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The idea did not frighten me; on the contrary, it comforted me.
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Our position in the creek on the contrary was close and confined.
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But he was not injured; on the contrary, he felt energized, stronger.
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Indeed, the Government forces seemed to tend contrariwise to big business practices.
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But luckily no harm came of this, but, contrariwise, a lasting good.
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But, unluckily for her ladyship, its effect had been exactly contrariwise.
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The most gifted of them coldly devoted themselves to working contrariwise.
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I sent for thee to curse my enemies: and thou contrariwise blessest them.
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Mirth cannot be excessive, but is always good; contrariwise, Melancholy is always bad.
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Now they rocked backward and forward together, and again they rocked quite contrariwise.
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The young, have an edge which they are desirous of blunting; the old contrariwise.
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Pleasure in itself is not bad but good: contrariwise, pain in itself is bad.
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We shoot obliquely and in different situations of ground, from heights downwards and contrariwise.
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But her very gladness appeared to affect contrariwise the troubled mood of her lover.
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In the mountains, meanwhile, the trend, contrariwise, was upward-allupward.
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Nay, contrariwise, the Pharisee, by commending of himself, makes himself much the worse, ver.
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Now contrariwise, if you please, let us look into hell.
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Yet, contrariwise, bundles of notes and bars of gold are regularly filched from Pasquale's safe.
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Therefore it is not lawful to pass contrariwise from the episcopal to the religious state.
