View synonyms for pointedly

pointedly

[ poin-tid-lee ]

Phonetic (Standard)IPA

adverb

in a marked, emphasized, or particularly directed fashion:
Many media outlets are reporting on the incident—but pointedly avoiding showing the images at the center of the story.
When a conference was convened to discuss a policy of settling environmental battles through negotiation, the Southern Utah Wilderness Alliance pointedly was not invited.

In 2008 then Pope Benedict XVI stated quite pointedly that animals are “not called to the eternal life.”

More pointedly, can supporting abortion rights be compatible with Christianity?

Relationships in her "blood family," a distinction her brother pointedly made at her funeral, were often strained and fractious.

The ruling today pointedly agrees that cloud storage issues can wait for another time.

She also pointedly noted that some of the Santa Barbara victims were stabbed, not shot.

Are you quite sure,” asked the missionary pointedly, “that you are supplied with everything else that you require?

So when he pointedly directed my attention to sunshine as the greatest need of the world, I felt it was my duty to listen.

Mr. Norcross was gettin' himself mighty pointedly disliked; you know that.

Again Minetta had remarked pointedly on his lack of fishing-luck, but it was not that that was troubling him.

"So much the wiser she, Master Dutton," returned the admiral, pointedly.

Browse