on the contrary
to the contrary
contrarily
contrariwise
after all
weirdly
ironically
disappointing
inexpectation
unsatisfying
nonexpectation
dissatisfactory
fall short of
irony
expectingly
expectational
aberrate
misexpectation
atypical
expectancy
irregular
anticipation
disappointment
preserved in aspic
letdown
expectationally
be supposed to
as it is
unforeseeable
overexpectation
cut-and-dry
cut-and-dried
otherwise
expection
counterexpectational
unexpected
disappoint
let down
expective
whelm
curiously
inexplicably
oddly
peculiarly
unhoped-for
outsight
reasonableness
starry-eyed
nonconformity
expectant
unforeseeability
shortfalling
counterintuitive
variance
counterintuition
dry
counterintuitively
variant
negative
discrepancy
overexpectantly
expectedness
biding
misperception
unrealistically
cold water
unforeseeably
counter-intention
incorrectness
tantalizing
tantalising
hope
against the grain
unsupposable
expectative
suspicious
suspect
shitty
apprehensiveness
shady
funny
give
apprehension
dread
fishy
unskeptically
nonperceptive
anticipationism
overhope
calculation
non-event
fail
disappointing
unsatisfying
dissatisfactory
expectational
atypical
irregular
preserved in aspic
unforeseeable
cut-and-dry
cut-and-dried
otherwise
counterexpectational
unexpected
expective
unhoped-for
starry-eyed
expectant
counterintuitive
dry
negative
tantalizing
tantalising
unsupposable
expectative
suspicious
suspect
shitty
shady
funny
fishy
nonperceptive
on the contrary
to the contrary
contrarily
contrariwise
after all
weirdly
ironically
expectingly
expectationally
as it is
curiously
inexplicably
oddly
peculiarly
counterintuitively
overexpectantly
unrealistically
unforeseeably
unskeptically
inexpectation
nonexpectation
irony
misexpectation
expectancy
anticipation
disappointment
letdown
overexpectation
expection
outsight
reasonableness
nonconformity
unforeseeability
shortfalling
variance
counterintuition
variant
discrepancy
expectedness
biding
misperception
cold water
counter-intention
incorrectness
hope
apprehensiveness
apprehension
dread
anticipationism
overhope
calculation
non-event
fall short of
aberrate
disappoint
let down
whelm
give
fail
English words for 'contrary to expectations'
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