deliberately
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[edit]Etymology
[edit]From deliberate + -ly.
Pronunciation
[edit]Adverb
[edit]deliberately (comparative more deliberately, superlative most deliberately)
- Intentionally, or after deliberation; not accidentally.
- He deliberately broke that, didn't he?
- 2004, George Carlin, When Will Jesus Bring the Pork Chops?[1], New York: Hyperion Books, →ISBN, →OCLC, →OL, page [2]:
- Major funding for this book was made possible by deliberately starving a family of four in Tennessee.
- 2024 November 14, Lauren del Valle, “After suicide of nonbinary teen, DOE finds multiple Title IX violations at Oklahoma school district”, in CNN[3]:
- “As a result, OCR found that the district’s pattern of inconsistent responses to reports it received of sexual harassment – infrequently responding under Title IX or not responding at all – rose to the level that the district’s response to some families’ sexual harassment reports was deliberately indifferent to students’ civil rights,” a news release from DOE reads.
- Taking one's time, slowly and carefully.
- After being called upon, he strode deliberately up to the blackboard.
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[edit]intentionally
slowly and carefully
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