paradoxically

adv

1. In a paradoxical manner; so as to create a paradox.

   “The proliferation of labor-saving devices has not given us more leisure time, paradoxically.”

   “If there exists a non-empty set of uninteresting natural numbers, there must be a smallest uninteresting number, but this number is paradoxically interesting because it is the smallest uninteresting number.”

   “Paradoxically enough, however, in general only the parties of the Left have done most to spread the belief that it was the numerical strength of the opposing material interests which decided political issues, whereas in practice these same parties have regularly and successfully acted as if they understood the key position of the intellectuals.”

   “Paradoxically, the same faculty who complain about busyness are most likely to end up waiting passively. While they acquiescently wait to write, they busy themselves with other, often trivial, activities.”

   “But Central Point, which had been a visibly mixed-race community since the 19th century, was home to a secret but paradoxically open interracialism.”