deliberately
Americanadverb
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on purpose; with clear intent.
Is this just bad journalism, or an attempt to deliberately mislead the public?
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with careful thought or consideration.
The board is committed to moving deliberately on this important initiative.
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in a calm and unhurried way.
He was careful to move slowly and deliberately so as not to scare them off.
Other Word Forms
- nondeliberately adverb
- overdeliberately adverb
- predeliberately adverb
- quasi-deliberately adverb
- undeliberately adverb
Etymology
Origin of deliberately
Example Sentences
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Does Mr. Paxton’s baggage—my deliberately foggy term—bother his fans?
The researchers believe that Stone Age people deliberately carved these symbols to communicate messages, meaning, and convey thoughts.
From BBC
These electron correlations act like a fine tuning mechanism, allowing scientists to deliberately engineer unusual quantum states.
From Science Daily
Hadel very deliberately inspected my pile of hay, as if I might have turned it to gold just by sleeping in it.
From Literature
But in a deliberately raggedy film, we find a raggedy man.
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