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View synonyms for deliberately

deliberately

[ dih-lib-er-it-lee ]

adverb

  1. on purpose; with clear intent:

    Is this just bad journalism, or an attempt to deliberately mislead the public?

  2. with careful thought or consideration:

    The board is committed to moving deliberately on this important initiative.

  3. in a calm and unhurried way:

    He was careful to move slowly and deliberately so as not to scare them off.



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Other Words From

  • non·de·lib·er·ate·ly adverb
  • o·ver·de·lib·er·ate·ly adverb
  • pre·de·lib·er·ate·ly adverb
  • qua·si-de·lib·er·ate·ly adverb
  • un·de·lib·er·ate·ly adverb

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Example Sentences

He alleges that a third boy, aged 10 or 11, was deliberately hit by a car and killed by a member of the pedophile network in 1979.

Patrons eat their cannoli slowly and deliberately, dabbing the powdered sugar on their plates with licked fingers.

Nonetheless, Turing killed himself on June 7, 1954, in a deliberately prepared way, by eating a cyanide-laced apple.

He refused to be drawn on whether the authors might be guilty of a deliberately deception.

Second, penalties need to be increased for lying or deliberately withholding relevant requested information from Congress.

But that she could calmly tell him about it, that she could deliberately describe this effect upon her of another man—!

He had come down after the wagon load, which had to be pitched on again rather more deliberately.

Now, after a weary march and a protracted fight in the burning sun, some of the men deliberately lay down to die.

It was a crisis engendered deliberately by men of evil purpose, public enemies well known and often named.

But she could easily believe that Belle had deliberately entangled Darry in this thing.

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