They sang-- 'Mistress Mary, quite contrary, How does your garden grow?
Now, though what I have done proves to be quite contrary to my good design, the fault ought not to be imputed to me, but to my persecuting foes; yet I own myself sorry for the mischance, and will myself pay the costs.
I have neither won nor lost; which is as much as to say, without a penny I came to this government, and without a penny I leave it--quite contrary to what other governors of islands use to do when they leave them.
The Intention therefore of the Idol is quite contrary to the wishes of the Idolater; as the one desires to confine the Idol to himself, the whole Business and Ambition of the other is to multiply Adorers.
I should rather have recourse to Authors of a quite contrary kind, that give us Instances of Calamities and Misfortunes, and shew Human Nature in its greatest Distresses.
You are, quoth Panurge, very far mistaken in your interpretation; for the matter is quite contrary to your sense thereof.
I have a remedy against thirst, quite contrary to that which is good against the biting of a mad dog.
Now we who, quite contrary, do not here pretend to breed a grammarian or a logician, but a gentleman, let us leave them to abuse their leisure; our business lies elsewhere.
When they are upon travelling the Woods, they keep a constant Pace, neither will they stride over a Tree that lies cross the Path, but always go round it, which is quite contrary to the Custom of the English, and other Europeans.
This is quite contrary to what the author has himself remarked on the picture of Seneca, and contrary I think to the fact.
How many do we see amongst them of my humour, who despise taking physic themselves, are men of a liberal diet, and live a quite contrary sort of life to what they prescribe others?
Quite contrary: The letter could never have come in a more lucky minute; for it found her in an ill-humour with a rival of yours, that shall be nameless, about the pronunciation of a French word.
His is ill syntax with heaven; and by unfeared he means unafraid: Words of a quite contrary signification.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "quite contrary" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
