as in intentionally
with full awareness of what one is doing
the real estate agent purposely withheld information that would have discouraged us from buying the property
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Recent Examples of purposely
No other governor would purposely alienate the families of 70,000 kids.
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Joe Soucheray, Twin Cities, 10 May 2025
What started out as a civil protest was purposely steered into becoming a firefight, but more accurately an ambush the Ghor congregated in the plaza had no chance of surviving.
—Matt Webb Mitovich, TVLine, 10 May 2025
According to a November 2023 LendingTree survey of 2,000 U.S. consumers, 15% of self-checkout users have purposely stolen an item — and 44% of self-checkout thieves plan to do it again.
Need a break?
—Betty Lin-Fisher, USA Today, 10 May 2025
Not only is there risk of injury on the playing field, but this sport purposely and tactically builds playing bodies that are bigger, taller, and stronger than the norm.
—Essence, 9 May 2025
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Joe Soucheray, Twin Cities, 10 May 2025
What started out as a civil protest was purposely steered into becoming a firefight, but more accurately an ambush the Ghor congregated in the plaza had no chance of surviving.
—Matt Webb Mitovich, TVLine, 10 May 2025
According to a November 2023 LendingTree survey of 2,000 U.S. consumers, 15% of self-checkout users have purposely stolen an item — and 44% of self-checkout thieves plan to do it again.
Need a break?
—Betty Lin-Fisher, USA Today, 10 May 2025
Not only is there risk of injury on the playing field, but this sport purposely and tactically builds playing bodies that are bigger, taller, and stronger than the norm.
—Essence, 9 May 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for purposely
Adverb
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Were officials intentionally looking the other way?—
Jeff Gluck,
New York Times,
22 May 2025
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The fact is, all companies have a culture, whether it is created intentionally and clearly articulated or not.—
Michele Herlein,
Forbes.com,
22 May 2025
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The festival was deliberately planned for the barren weeks in June after college students left and before the summer concert and festival season kicked in.—
Christopher Arnott,
Hartford Courant,
25 May 2025
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Are people allowed to observe that the literary world is deliberately sidelining a certain demographic of writer -- and to do something about it?—
Michael Washburn,
National Review,
25 May 2025
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“Purposely.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/purposely. Accessed 4 Jun. 2025.
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