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Meanings of purposely in inglês
português
de forma intencional With intention; in an intentional manner.
Sinônimos
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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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 inglês
1
Did they purposely seek out soldiers who saw themselves as citizens first?
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Kirby purposely kept her thoughts focused on the moment, in the moment.
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I found it in the cupboard-perhapsplaced purposely out of his reach.
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A second letter I put purposely on the floor in the breakfast-room.
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It means purposely keeping groups small and taking turns on popular routes.
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He purposely caught Kirby's gaze as she reached for biscuit number four.
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The Administration is corrupt; our generals are either incompetent or purposely inefficient.
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I'd purposely had us go west before we reached the boys' camp.
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In fact, they had been chosen purposely in order not to clash.
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The truth was that Bettina had purposely left her maid in town.
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All this time we are keeping Mr. Clive purposely in the background.
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I have purposely dwelt at length on the case of the S.B.
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It was inconceivable that anyone would think she was purposely causing trouble.
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The gaze of the suspected guard purposely avoided that of Beverly Calhoun.
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And then she said I was purposely bumping into her all night.
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I have purposely not chosen an extreme example; just an average example.
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Purposely through the time
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