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The antithetically poor move slower, but in the same direction, stopping at dingy cigarrerias for fat pendulous cigars.

From Time Magazine Archive

I'm ambitious, in a way; but when that way requires me to leave the people—the things—that I love, then ambition chameleonizes and I become ambitious antithetically.

From A Fool There Was by Browne, Porter Emerson

That he could understand; and, of course, if the other house were antithetically opposed to the Lords, it followed that the House of Commons was not composed of noblesse.

From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 54, No. 333, July 1843 by Various

In early alliterative poetry it is especially used antithetically with "bliss."

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 2 "Baconthorpe" to "Bankruptcy" by Various

We may imagine, then, that by their exclusion from the circumscribed activities constituting consciousness, these outer activities, though of the same intrinsic nature, become antithetically opposed in aspect.

From A Candid Examination of Theism by Romanes, George John