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Adverse :: Adverse (a.) Acting against, or in a contrary direction; opposed; contrary; opposite; conflicting; as, adverse winds; an adverse party; a spirit adverse to distinctions of caste..

Crossgrained :: Crossgrained (a.) Perverse; untractable; contrary.

Uncharitable :: Uncharitable (a.) Not charitable; contrary to charity; severe in judging; harsh; censorious; as, uncharitable opinions or zeal..

Preposterous :: Preposterous (a.) Contrary to nature or reason; not adapted to the end; utterly and glaringly foolish; unreasonably absurd; perverted.

Throw :: Throw (v. t.) To twist two or more filaments of, as silk, so as to form one thread; to twist together, as singles, in a direction contrary to the twist of the singles themselves; -- sometimes applied to the whole class of operations by which silk is prepared for the weaver..

Ill :: Ill (n.) Whatever is contrary to good, in a moral sense; wickedness; depravity; iniquity; wrong; evil..

Reseizer :: Reseizer (n.) The taking of lands into the hands of the king where a general livery, or oustre le main, was formerly mis-sued, contrary to the form and order of law..

Wickedly :: Wickedly (adv.) In a wicked manner; in a manner, or with motives and designs, contrary to the divine law or the law of morality; viciously; corruptly; immorally..

Erotesis :: Erotesis (n.) A figure o/ speech by which a strong affirmation of the contrary, is implied under the form o/ an earnest interrogation, as in the following lines; -.

Apagogical :: Apagogical (a.) Proving indirectly, by showing the absurdity, or impossibility of the contrary..

Retrograde :: Retrograde (a.) Apparently moving backward, and contrary to the succession of the signs, that is, from east to west, as a planet..

Counternatural :: Counternatural (a.) Contrary to nature.

Un- :: Un- () An inseparable verbal prefix or particle. It is prefixed: (a) To verbs to express the contrary, and not the simple negative, of the action of the verb to which it is prefixed; as in uncoil, undo, unfold. (b) To nouns to form verbs expressing privation of the thing, quality, or state expressed by the noun, or separation from it; as in unchild, unsex. Sometimes particles and participial adjectives formed with this prefix coincide in form with compounds of the negative prefix un- (see 2d Un-

Smuggle :: Smuggle (v. t.) To import or export secretly, contrary to the law; to import or export without paying the duties imposed by law; as, to smuggle lace..

Contrary :: Contrary (n.) the opposite; a proposition, fact, or condition incompatible with another; as, slender proofs which rather show the contrary. See Converse, n., 1..

Untrue :: Untrue (a.) Not true; false; contrary to the fact; as, the story is untrue..

Subcontrary :: Subcontrary (a.) Contrary in an inferior degree.

Cataphysical :: Cataphysical (a.) Unnatural; contrary to nature.

Dissent :: Dissent (v. i.) To differ; to be of a contrary nature.

Contrariwise :: Contrariwise (adv.) In a contrary order; conversely.

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