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Meanings of purposely in anglès
portuguès
de forma intencional With intention; in an intentional manner.
Synonyms
Examples for "deliberately"
Examples for "deliberately"
1
Democracy is being deliberately removed, the latest example being the Lisbon treaty.
2
Media reports are often incomplete and government reports are sometimes deliberately vague.
3
Instead, fun means deliberately manipulating a familiar situation in a new way.
4
Israel says Hamas deliberately hides its weapons and fighters among ordinary civilians.
5
Civilians are too often deliberately targeted to create a climate of fear.
1
In fact, it's a great way to learn; just do it intentionally.
2
The Interior Ministry spokesman denied government forces had intentionally destroyed residents' homes.
3
Israel claimed Hamas had intentionally provoked the violence, a charge Hamas denied.
4
He said those intentionally doing the wrong thing were on borrowed time.
5
The backbone of the roof had been broken intentionally, simulating great age.
1
I said just now 'her friendship'; and I used the word advisedly.
2
I said Josiah Wedgwood was tragically in love-theword was used advisedly.
3
From thence he shouted-theword is used advisedly-forhis wife and daughter.
4
Felix Page had enjoyed- Iusethe word advisedly- awidespreadreputation for eccentricity.
5
I write this news to you advisedly, displeasant as it must be.
1
God has not designedly made the religious life as hard as possible.
2
Bakahenzie remembered Infunyana very well, but nevertheless designedly Birnier ignored him in return.
3
The references to money-matters have been designedly slight throughout these pages.
4
Gives a long and designedly loathsome account of glanders and farcy.
5
Pause, in public speech, is not mere silence-itis silence made designedly eloquent.
1
But it was, of course, possible to start a fire on purpose.
2
Fires in the Amazon are often set on purpose to clear land.
3
Mr Warner said Mr Turei was run off the road on purpose.
4
When Garn left, Treia said she had sent him away on purpose.
5
Under other circumstances I'd have said he was doing it on purpose.
1
Whoever left these places left them by choice and at their leisure.
2
It is not a place that anyone would come to by choice.
3
Deila's switch on the left side of defence was made by choice.
4
Which was an insult from the start, not something adopted by choice.
5
Both of them had been virgins, she by choice, he by default.
1
This regime of technologies was built by design without concerns about exploitation.
2
I don't believe that by design one type of cooking is better.
3
The good that they do is by design; the harm by accident.
4
Therefore, by design, a blockchain is resistant to modification of its data.
5
His voice was loud by design, the way a horn is loud.
Usage of purposely in anglès
1
Did they purposely seek out soldiers who saw themselves as citizens first?
2
Kirby purposely kept her thoughts focused on the moment, in the moment.
3
I found it in the cupboard-perhapsplaced purposely out of his reach.
4
A second letter I put purposely on the floor in the breakfast-room.
5
It means purposely keeping groups small and taking turns on popular routes.
6
He purposely caught Kirby's gaze as she reached for biscuit number four.
7
The Administration is corrupt; our generals are either incompetent or purposely inefficient.
8
I'd purposely had us go west before we reached the boys' camp.
9
In fact, they had been chosen purposely in order not to clash.
10
The truth was that Bettina had purposely left her maid in town.
11
All this time we are keeping Mr. Clive purposely in the background.
12
I have purposely dwelt at length on the case of the S.B.
13
It was inconceivable that anyone would think she was purposely causing trouble.
14
The gaze of the suspected guard purposely avoided that of Beverly Calhoun.
15
And then she said I was purposely bumping into her all night.
16
I have purposely not chosen an extreme example; just an average example.
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Purposely through the time
Purposely across language varieties
United Kingdom
Common
United States of America
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