adverb
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
deliberately exaggerated (=in a way that is intended or planned)
▪ She blinked twice in a deliberately exaggerated gesture of surprise.
deliberately provocative
▪ She was accused of being deliberately provocative.
deliberately/openly flout sth
▪ The union had openly flouted the law.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
provocative
▪ Roman, as always, was being arrogant, deliberately provocative.
■ VERB
avoid
▪ During her lunch hour she shopped, deliberately avoiding the part of town in which Giles's office was situated.
▪ Some of them fear he's now deliberately avoiding them.
▪ It seems likely, moreover, that the police deliberately avoided mixing it in the more perilous districts.
▪ In spite of the repeated assurances of his gushingly polite secretary, Mattie knew that he was deliberately avoiding her.
▪ He had a feeling that she was deliberately avoiding him - that she feared to be alone with him.
▪ There is an additional problem since coin designs might sometimes deliberately avoid the most recent currents in art.
▪ So much so that I deliberately avoided anything outside it which might affect my emotions or disturb my thoughts.
▪ The artist as critic in this case deliberately avoided the historical context of the pictures she was discussing.
choose
▪ Oliver was annoyed that Angelina had deliberately chosen to sit next to Sir Thomas.
▪ He will often seem to deliberately choose the activity that is opposite of what the parents want.
▪ We had deliberately chosen a villa with easy access to the sea, but the children preferred their own pool.
▪ It was what she had deliberately chosen.
▪ The default is the setting or choice you get unless you deliberately choose something else.
▪ He deliberately chose the day to coincide with the Paddington election.
▪ These 15 champions and contenders have been deliberately chosen to cover all eras of the modern game.
▪ I deliberately chose bright colours to illustrate that green is not the only option.
create
▪ Giap had deliberately created that impression by staging diversionary actions around the country.
flout
▪ Michael Kalisher, for Birds Eye, said there was no way the company had deliberately flouted the law.
▪ If some one deliberately flouts the law in that manner, they only have themselves to blame for the consequences.
▪ Sometimes we deliberately flout the charge to be relevant: to signal embarrassment or a desire to change the subject.
ignore
▪ Several times over. Deliberately ignoring her, Patrick concentrated on his surroundings.
▪ And Lais was deliberately ignoring him.
keep
▪ You're deliberately keeping me away from her - and if you ask me, that tells a story in itself.
▪ The routine was unvarying, and I deliberately kept it as a technique of maintaining a personal link between us.
▪ It lacked substance - almost as much as had my fantasies that Edward was deliberately keeping us apart.
▪ The groups are deliberately kept small so participants can raise individual concerns and cases.
▪ Then she wondered suddenly if Tom Russell had known she would find it intimidating and had deliberately kept her in the dark.
▪ Matilda had known of Edmund's death and had deliberately kept that fact from her.
▪ Mitch did not know where she was either and seemed to think that she had been deliberately keeping out of his way.
▪ She had never felt that Alice had deliberately kept them apart, fearing that her brother would be bored by her friend.
leave
▪ Many issues, however, were not well defined in the Protocol, or were deliberately left ambiguous.
▪ I found the protozoan attracted in large numbers to slate panels we deliberately left at vents for one year and then recovered.
▪ But they have deliberately left the story line open ... just in case.
▪ The Forestry Commission has deliberately left areas of older woodland for their wildlife value, so concentrate your observations here.
make
▪ We are ashamed to deliberately make a system so inconvenient that people will stop using it.
▪ A genius deliberately made, not born.
▪ The set, therefore, can be manipulated and made deliberately suggestive of the appropriateness of religious labelling.
▪ Nor do I believe in deliberately making people poor: that is why I oppose sanctions.
▪ To inflate their confidence, I was deliberately making them see a weak front.
▪ No doubt Thomas was deliberately making her look foolish in public in order to hide his real feelings.
mislead
▪ She had just assumed ... She had assumed rather a lot, it seemed - or perhaps Caro had deliberately misled her?
▪ That statement was silent on the question of whether Gingrich deliberately misled the committee or skirted tax law.
▪ The most generous excuse one can make is that Brooke was deliberately misled by his advisers.
▪ The lawsuit would likely allege that Symington got the loan because he deliberately misled the pension funds about his financial condition.
seek
▪ Anti-alcohol campaigners deliberately seek to confuse alcohol with narcotic drugs.
▪ He did not say that these artists deliberately sought to imitate the photographs, or that their works are exactly like them.
▪ Some deliberately seek high concentrations of brine and others regularly withstand being frozen solid.
▪ Newly formed governments seek deliberately to reverse their predecessors' communications policies.
▪ If the club golfer, having read that late hitting is desirable, deliberately seeks an action he is in trouble.
▪ Didn't alter the fact that he'd deliberately sought her out because of her parents.
▪ Stevenson was deliberately seeking a plot that would allow him to explore an aspect of human psychology.
set
▪ But it was the knowledge that he'd deliberately set out to make a fool of her that wounded her the most.
▪ There were no initial indications that the fire was set deliberately, Gaines said.
▪ These are corporations deliberately set up, taken over, or controlled for the explicit and sole purpose of executing criminal activity.
▪ But under cross-examination, he was accused of deliberately setting out to besmirch her character.
▪ It was deliberately set up when the University received its Charter in 1909.
▪ Sometimes in drama a teacher deliberately sets up a structure that appears to lack any obvious game element.
▪ He said the explosion appeared not to have been deliberately set off because of the timing.
▪ Social groups are often deliberately set up for a purpose.
start
▪ This deliberately starts with some very simple models, which are then elaborated step-by-step.
▪ Police confirmed that it was started deliberately.
▪ A further £73,000 went on repairing other damage from fires, almost all of which were started deliberately.
▪ Read in studio Investigators say a fire in which a man died could have been started deliberately.
▪ Meanwhile the police are continuing their investigation into the cause of the fire, which it's thought was started deliberately.
▪ There are no obvious signs that the fire was started deliberately.
▪ The fire, which caused damage valued at about £2,500, had been started deliberately but the motive was still not clear.
try
▪ He said he was not suggesting that Mrs Swami had tried deliberately to mislead the jury about the number of beatings.
▪ Many hospitals deliberately tried to avoid challenging or openly discouraging the parents' hopes and expectations for a perfect or near-perfect recovery.
▪ Experts make mistakes, they work to their own agendas, and sometimes they deliberately try to mislead.
▪ There is no reason, however, to suppose that Isabella had deliberately tried to build up a party amongst the bishops.
▪ Was he deliberately trying to make her feel even more humiliated?
▪ Richard admitted that he had listened to the advice of people who were deliberately trying to sow dissension between them.
▪ Some people deliberately try to programme their children.
▪ Few organizations however formally acknowledge it, or deliberately try to develop the coaching role.
use
▪ He deliberately used both brush and pen as boldly as possible to soften the mechanical nature of the process.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ I think he was deliberately ignoring me.
▪ Police believe the fire was started deliberately.
▪ Rogers was dismissed from the army for deliberately disobeying an order.
▪ She left the letter there deliberately so that you'd see it.
▪ Somebody deliberately released the brakes and headed the truck downhill.
▪ There were no signs that the fire had been set deliberately.
▪ Tom paused deliberately before continuing.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Did they - whoever they were - deliberately try to kill him?
▪ He deliberately paused outside the door, forcing them to wait in frustration before they dared erupt into excited comment.
▪ In that sense, it is deliberately idiosyncratic.
▪ Story then becomes revised into recitation or into a deliberately implausible sequence against which the narrative voice can play.
▪ Teachers can not be dismissed for insubordination unless they willfully and deliberately defy school authorities or violate reasonable school rules.
▪ The church had, of course, been put there deliberately both to use and to nullify the site of the previous religion.
▪ Very deliberately, Ricci slowly rotated it into the best position for nut-cracking.