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View synonyms for intentionally

intentionally

[ in-ten-shuh-nl-ee ]

adverb

  1. on purpose; with conscious intent:

    Intentionally weakening standards is shortsighted and unethical to the extreme.

    The hives are constructed out of a light-colored wood finished in a color intentionally reminiscent of honey.

  2. with deliberate consciousness or focus:

    Our hope is that people with opposing points of view will engage intentionally over coffee, or better yet, a meal together.



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Example Sentences

“Lying is intentionally, intentionally misleading someone, all right,” he told Newsmax.

The marketing for the film was designed to intentionally mislead viewers into believing that it was based on a true story.

We have intentionally kept Pomplamoose very light and fun.

That a few white and Western-trained doctors have intentionally used disease to harm Africans in the past.

There are people who intentionally stoke the flames of hate against our community.

Though monuments may be moved intentionally or by natural causes, they can be more trusted in the long run of things.

To cease living together for the time fixed by statute is not desertion unless this was done intentionally.

If an inventor intentionally conceals facts or misleads the public by an erroneous description, his patent is void.

But death—the taking of life—was a selective process, intentionally executed, the result a foreseen conclusion.

Needless to add that this is ambitious confectioner's verse, intentionally nonsensical.

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