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purposely

adverb as in intentionally

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Example Sentences

Other times in the deposition, she appeared purposely evasive.

What Murphy alleges in this case, though, is O’Brien is purposely telling officials at DHS to minimize a major threat, just so the president wouldn’t get mad.

From Vox

They accuse the company of purposely pushing Plated to miss revenue targets following the merger, targets that could’ve resulted in potentially millions more in payouts to investors.

From Fortune

It’s a leader’s job to stop that from happening—to reinforce the new state and purposely make it harder to go back.

From Fortune

The purpose of these surveys, as Modern Retail has previously reported, is for Facebook to catch dropshippers who are purposely misrepresenting their shipping times.

From Digiday

But it certainly contributed, and purposely so, to the defeat of the tough Likud hardliner Yitzhak Shamir in 1992.

She throws gigantic, destructive parties, and purposely lights his ottomans on fire.

Was that something you had purposely incorporated from Scandal?

There, said Obama, “the United States has purposely avoided choosing sides.”

But what if I told you there was another burger chain that purposely pays above the minimum wage?

Only then did I own that by hook or by crook—and mostly by crook, I was forced to suspect—they had purposely given me the slip.

It was not purposely contrived, it was in automatic obedience to deeper impulses than she knew.

He purposely lied about the take because Carlson usually charged on the percentage basis.

The Governor purposely had the biggest American horses and the largest vehicles brought out to make an impression.

She seemed to be purposely emphasising the selfish part of her dissatisfaction out of a kind of reckless defiance.

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On this page you'll find 22 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to purposely, such as: consciously, deliberately, explicitly, expressly, knowingly, and willfully.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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