deliberately
Definition:
1. With intention; in an intentional manner.
2. In a deliberate unhurried manner.
Use 'deliberately' in a sentence:
- 1. Deep breaths can help, as can speaking more slowly and deliberately.
- 2. He seemed to circumvent the girls deliberately.
- 3. Are you being deliberately obtuse?
- 4. He had deliberately misdirected the reporters.
- 5. The accounting firm deliberately destroyed documents to thwart government investigators.
- 6. I was deliberately trying to annoy him.; I got him angry on purpose.
- 7. The programme was deliberately slanted to make the home team look good.
- 8. Of course she can do it. She's just being deliberately obstructive.
- 9. I don't think we do anything deliberately to upset our customers.
- 10. The right to deliberately alter quotations is not a concomitant of a free press.
- 11. She was, quite deliberately, making him feel unwelcome.
- 12. You're deliberately unconventional. Even your choice of clothes is a statement of your non-conformity.
- 13. I intend to use these terms in a deliberately non-specific and all-embracing way.
- 14. These movies deliberately set out to shock.
- 15. He doesn't really mean that ─ he's just being deliberately provocative.
- 16. He packed up his possessions slowly and deliberately.
- 17. The government chooses deliberately to understate the increase in prices.
- 18. I firmly believe our strategy is being deliberately, cynically manipulated.
- 19. Do you really mean that or are you just being deliberately perverse?
- 20. Do you really mean that or are you just being deliberately perverse ?
- 21. She's been deliberately ignoring him all day.
- 22. Harry wondered if Potts had deliberately sent him on a wild goose chase.
- 23. His sister said he had deliberately given the hospital a false name and address.
- 24. You're deliberately unconventional. Even your choice of clothes is a statement of your nonconformity.
- 25. They were deliberately misinformed about their rights.
- 26. They have been accused of deliberately causing interference to transmissions.
- 27. I had deliberately picked a city with a tropical climate.
- 28. It looks as if the blaze was started deliberately.
- 29. A man is deliberately designed to be mortal. He grows, he ages, and he dies.
- 30. The wording was deliberately ambiguous.
- 31. You think I did it deliberately, but I assure you I did not.
- 32. You think I did it deliberately, but I assure you (that) I did not.
- 33. The police deliberately kept a low profile in most places.
- 34. She was deliberately mismatching articles of clothing.
- 35. The letter was deliberately couched in very vague terms.
- 36. He was accused of being deliberately vague.
- 37. He deliberately misled us about the nature of their relationship.
- 38. Her account was deliberately ambiguous.
- 39. He spoke slowly and deliberately.
- 40. My ex-wife deliberately sabotages my access to the children.
- 41. The photos were deliberately taken to discredit the President.
- 42. The thieves must have deliberately triggered the alarm and hidden inside the house.
- 43. The government has deliberately frustrated his efforts to gain work permits for his foreign staff.
- 44. The speech was deliberately designed to embarrass the prime minister.
- 45. You deliberately went in the other direction.
- 46. A fire could have been deliberately started to cloak small coordinated troop movements.
- 47. She has been deliberately left off the guest list.