Definition of "contrariwise" []

• From a contrasting point of view. (adverb)
• In the opposite way or reverse order. (adverb)
• In a perverse manner. (adverb)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

• "A BODY DOUBLE, contrariwise, is a person who takes his clothes off and has his rippling abs and dinner-plate pecs cinematographed, said images to be interespersed with head shots of the star."
• "This is where I find myself face to face with a logic that is as "contrariwise" as anything TweedleDee and TweedleDum could debate."
• "But, believe me, in "contrariwise," he is flinty obsidian when it comes to his convictions."