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contrasted

adjective B2
  1. Set in contrast (of two or more things).
  2. Displaying or marked by contrast; contrasty.
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True, Anne could not help a little pang when she contrasted her plain black tam and shapeless, tight-sleeved, homemade gray-cloth coat with Diana’s jaunty fur cap and smart little jacket.
Anne of Green Gables, p. 148 · C1
Bennet with a degree of civility which made her two daughters ashamed, especially when contrasted with the cold and ceremonious politeness of her courtesy and address of his friend.
Pride and Prejudice, p. 313 · B2
He often lamented his own hard fate and contrasted it with the luxury and idleness of the Lapdog, till at last one day he broke his cords and halter, and galloped into his master’s house, kicking up his heels without measure, and frisking and fawning as well as he could.
Three Hundred Aesop's Fables, p. 18 · B2
He was a man of forty to forty-five years, but he seemed at least fifty, and his black moustache and eyebrows contrasted strangely with his almost white hair, which was cut short, in the military fashion.
The Count of Monte Cristo, p. 439 · C1

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