Sorry, no online dictionaries contain the exact phrase contrary to what one expects.
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1. counterintuitive
 2. unexpected
3. unanticipated
4. paradoxical
5. ironic
6. accidental
7. just because
8. mislike
9. counterintuitively
10. impermissibly
 11. inconsistence
12. leastest
13. nondeterministic
14. osmosis
15. uncompliant
16. undecided
17. unequally
18. unknown
19. ageist
20. anachorism
 21. anticompetitively
22. hit-or-miss
23. imperfect
24. impf
25. incommensurately
26. inconsistent
27. indefinite
28. indeterminate
29. inequitable
30. inequitably
 31. inofficial
32. maybe
33. mysterious
34. perhaps
35. tentative
36. uncertain
37. unconscionability
38. unfairly
39. unfinish
40. unjust

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