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    1. On the contrary if you feel that you have all the time in the world to improve the standard of your life (as different from living standard!) or to help the needy and have all the money and possessions to take care of your essential bodily needs, then you will be happy all the time


    2. “…who, contrary to hope, in hope believed, so that he became the


    3. Having said this, never say anything to the contrary


    4. On the contrary, when I am alone I feel complete! c) I am also too perceptive: I can see a man's fault within ten minutes – the same fault another woman would see in two years


    5. Naturally, I don't question Louise's good intentions; on the contrary, she is the only friend of mine who supports me in deed


    6. On the contrary, it is crystal clear to me that Evil prevails everywhere


    7. It has nothing to do with intelligence - on the contrary, it is much more manifest in persons of mean or low intelligence, and it is thanks to cunning that the mediocre often supplant the excellent


    8. On the contrary, he looks angry and annoyed, as if he were jealous! Although he is only seven, he often shows such malice and arrogance which is rare even in adults


    9. What's going on? The sonic war against me is getting more and more unbearable day by day and I just can't stand it any more! For some strange reason, I am surrounded by all kinds of noise pollution: Every morning, at 7:30 am, my father gets out to the yard and keeps himself busy with meaningless tinkering and hammering at pieces of wood or metal for hours! When I return from work at 4:00 in the afternoon and lie in bed so as to have a brief nap, dad goes upstairs, to Alice's half-built penthouse, and starts hammering at stuff again till 5:30 that I leave for the gym! He doesn't really repair anything, he just enjoys the noise! The yard and the penthouse are full of rusty tools, old dilapidated furniture and all kinds of junk dad finds on the road and carries home! I often complain about the noise and the piggery but he never listens; on the contrary, he swears like a trooper!


    10. Antonia injected you with a vial of nanomaterial she thought would kill you, but on the contrary, it has switched something within you that gives us all a chance

    11. The voice that would nudge us to take or to do or to act in a manner that is contrary to the way of God is this very presence


    12. It is so different and contrary to the world


    13. When He calls upon us to perform His will, it might be entirely contrary to what this world thinks is peaceful or gentle or any of these other fruits of the Spirit


    14. Hard work and stress leave me very contrary, what about you?


    15. I think longingly of the afternoon spent on the boat, sitting in the sunshine laughing with these two men … one now looking so serious and the other bloodstained and in pain, despite his assurances to the contrary


    16. Sons have this absurd idea that their mothers are somehow incapable of looking after themselves even if the evidence all points to the contrary


    17. ‘On the contrary, Katie, I understand all too well, and I would be very grateful if you would please not take that tone of voice with me


    18. Contrary to what some in the crew thought, Kelvin did not continuously immerse himself in the view of space as seen from the ship


    19. "On the contrary, in fact


    20. “We will all die if the captain of this ship starts making decisions based on information that is contrary to the laws of physics

    21. You might find that the majority of Jade City citizens wishes are contrary to yours


    22. Quite the contrary, he satisfied her so well that she was sated with just once a week


    23. Contrary to popular belief, members of The Acheronian Star


    24. were both standing - this development (so contrary to their


    25. The wages of the labour, and the profits of the stock employed in bringing such commodities to market, on the contrary, are seldom out of their natural proportion to those of the other employments of labour and stock in their neighbourhood


    26. Such combinations, however, are frequently resisted by a contrary defensive combination of the workmen, who sometimes, too, without any provocation of this kind, combine, of their own accord, to raise tile price of their labour


    27. The hands, on the contrary, would, in this case, naturally multiply beyond their employment


    28. The price of labour, on the contrary, is dearer in England than in Scotland


    29. Workmen, on the contrary, when they are liberally paid by the piece, are very apt to overwork themselves, and to ruin their health and constitution in a few years


    30. Don’t be afraid to challenge ideas that seem to be contrary to

    31. The contrary of this happens in a year of sudden and extraordinary scarcity


    32. The plenty of a cheap year, on the contrary, by increasing the demand, tends to raise the price of labour, as the cheapness of provisions tends to lower it


    33. A mason or bricklayer, on the contrary, can work neither in hard frost


    34. In great towns, on the contrary, trade can be extended as stock increases, and


    35. Those, on the contrary, for


    36. In a decaying manufacture, on the contrary, many


    37. "On the contrary," Nidon replied, "If they were able to take slaves they would have taken the whole world centuries ago


    38. Quite the contrary, if they existed they would have been infected with the Instinct for centuries


    39. interrupted by innumerable accidents, and, in every respect, contrary to the order of nature and


    40. ’ Contrary to his assertion,

    41. "Unfortunately he has yet to learn that the world is built on chaos, and that his quest for order is contrary to the nature of reality


    42. Gold, on the contrary, is almost always found virgin


    43. On the contrary, it is generally increased by it


    44. Contrary to what Geoff had said, things did not seem better in the morning


    45. In 1695, on the contrary, the value of the silver coin was not kept up by the gold coin; a guinea then commonly exchanging for thirty shillings of the worn and clipt silver


    46. below its standard value, In 1695, on the contrary, it had been supposed to be near five-and-twenty per cent


    47. The rise, indeed, supposing there has been any, has hitherto been so very small, that after all that has been said, it may, perhaps, appear to many people uncertain, not only whether this event has actually taken place, but whether the contrary may not have taken place, or whether the value of silver may not still continue to fall in the European market


    48. philosophers want to think – or, on the contrary, that he


    49. They are persons that, on the contrary, are particularly


    50. That of calves skins, on the contrary, is greatly below it













































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    Synonyms for "contrary"

    contrary opposite reverse adverse obstinate perverse wayward unfriendly inimical averse antithetic antagonistic disagreeable wilful conflicting incompatible counter contradictory opposed opposing contumacious headstrong intractable balky refractory self-willed antipode antithesis

    "contrary" definitions

    a relation of direct opposition


    exact opposition


    a logical relation such that two propositions are contraries if both cannot be true but both can be false


    very opposed in nature or character or purpose


    of words or propositions so related that both cannot be true but both may be false


    resistant to guidance or discipline


    in an opposing direction