to the contrary

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to the contrary and on the contrary

as the opposite of what has been stated; contrary to what has been stated. The brown horse didn't beat the black horse. To the contrary, the black one won. Among spiders, the male is not the larger one. On the contrary, the female is larger.

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She has already almost persuaded me of her being warmly attached to her daughter, though I have been so long convinced to the contrary. Lady Susan by Austen, Jane View in context For all you and I know to the contrary, the harm may go on. No Name by Collins, Wilkie View in context But, in fact, the 'Paradise Regained' is little, if at all, inferior to the 'Paradise Lost,' and is only supposed so to be because men do not like epics, whatever they may say to the contrary, and, reading those of Milton in their natural order, are too much wearied with the first to derive any pleasure from the second. Poems by Poe, Edgar Allan View in context More results

? References in classic literature

She has already almost persuaded me of her being warmly attached to her daughter, though I have been so long convinced to the contrary.

Lady Susan by Austen, Jane View in context

For all you and I know to the contrary, the harm may go on.

No Name by Collins, Wilkie View in context

But, in fact, the 'Paradise Regained' is little, if at all, inferior to the 'Paradise Lost,' and is only supposed so to be because men do not like epics, whatever they may say to the contrary, and, reading those of Milton in their natural order, are too much wearied with the first to derive any pleasure from the second.

Poems by Poe, Edgar Allan View in context

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