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| Grammar : Adv |
| Spell : pur-puh s-lee |
| Phonetic Transcription : ˈpɜr pəs li |
Definition of purposely
Origin :- late 15c., from purpose (n.) + -ly (2).
- adv intentionally
- "He's afraid of me," boasted Reddy in a purposely loud tone.
- Extract from : « Grace Harlowe's Return to Overton Campus » by Jessie Graham Flower
- "Why, surely I will if that's what you command me to do," said Henry, purposely misunderstanding her.
- Extract from : « Her Father's Daughter » by Gene Stratton-Porter
- He said Tom had purposely thrown the bottle of blacking at him.
- Extract from : « Tom Swift and his Electric Runabout » by Victor Appleton
- They had purposely chosen a form of words which would mean as little as possible.
- Extract from : « Bunyan » by James Anthony Froude
- It went high—thrown there purposely; he had not dared aim it into the flame.
- Extract from : « Two Thousand Miles Below » by Charles Willard Diffin
- The contributors have been purposely selected in order to dispel this hostility.
- Extract from : « College Teaching » by Paul Klapper
- It was even charged that he had purposely inoculated some of the evicted.
- Extract from : « The Siege of Boston » by Allen French
- Granice turned to the servant, who seemed to be purposely lingering.
- Extract from : « The Early Short Fiction of Edith Wharton, Part 1 (of 10) » by Edith Wharton
- It degrades and brutalizes the whole being, and does it purposely.
- Extract from : « Among the Pines » by James R. Gilmore
- I asked, purposely bending over the papers and avoiding his eye.
- Extract from : « In Kings' Byways » by Stanley J. Weyman
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