Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • In a dissimilar manner.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adverb In a dissimilar manner; in a varied style.

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  • adverb In a dissimilar way; differently.

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Examples

  • In forming a government with Avigdor Lieberman, Netanyahu has prioritized Israel's security and demographic threat not dissimilarly to previous Israeli governments-but with the exception of one critical provision.

    Alon Ben-Meir: THE END OF LAND FOR PEACE! Alon Ben-Meir 2011

  • The obvious follow-up question is whether those with similar backgrounds who hail from other countries with which the US is ostensibly allied are treated similarly or dissimilarly from however it is that Israelis are being treated, and when and by whom the new policy was decided.

    The Volokh Conspiracy » U.S. Denying Entry Visas to People Who Work on Israel’s Dimona Nuclear Reactor? 2010

  • Were NASA only doing robotic space science, I can't say that I'd be dissimilarly inclined.

    Forget The Moon - NASA Watch 2009

  • Many arguments made in these recent exchanges are inconsistent and self-serving, proposing restrictions for the newcomer group that one would not be prepared to tolerate in the case of one's own group, or, more generally, treating similar cases dissimilarly without a reason.

    The New Religious Intolerance 2010

  • Many arguments made in these recent exchanges are inconsistent and self-serving, proposing restrictions for the newcomer group that one would not be prepared to tolerate in the case of one's own group, or, more generally, treating similar cases dissimilarly without a reason.

    The New Religious Intolerance 2010

  • Many arguments made in these recent exchanges are inconsistent and self-serving, proposing restrictions for the newcomer group that one would not be prepared to tolerate in the case of one's own group, or, more generally, treating similar cases dissimilarly without a reason.

    The New Religious Intolerance 2010

  • The obvious follow-up question is whether those with similar backgrounds who hail from other countries with which the US is ostensibly allied are treated similarly or dissimilarly from however it is that Israelis are being treated, and when and by whom the new policy was decided.neurodocQuote

    The Volokh Conspiracy » U.S. Denying Entry Visas to People Who Work on Israel’s Dimona Nuclear Reactor? 2010

  • Not so dissimilarly: when Kafka wrote “The Judgment” in an all-night session, he composed it, according to his diaries, on the eve of Yom Kippur, the Jewish Day of Atonement, which is also known in Hebrew as Yom ha-Din, the Day of Judgment.

    The Metamorphosis, in The Penal Colony,and Other Stories Franz Kafka 2000

  • Not dissimilarly, it doesn't seem to matter what arguments or opprobrium are heaped on the overweight; their numbers, girth, and hostility merely increase.

    Michael Wolff: China and the Obese: The President Meets His Greatest Problems 2009

  • I would be overstating the case considerably if I were to aver that it makes John Barth's not dissimilarly-themed The End of the Road look like The Code of the Woosters, but the fact that the idea of saying it occurred to me at all ought to give you an idea of just how grim it is.

    GreenCine Daily: Shorts, 3/28. 2007

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