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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
purposely
adverb
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ Tom was purposely not invited to the party.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ At 5.10 a.m., an officer purposely posted outside his lodgings heard an alarm go off.
▪ I banged it again, purposely this time, and again, and again.
▪ In fact, some day-care centers are purposely built adjacent to senior facilities to encourage the connection.
▪ She decided purposely against the white coat.
▪ Suddenly the Norths' car was purposely rammed by a man who believed that his footloose wife was hiding in it.
▪ The examples are purposely petty because tiny details of everyday life do preoccupy parents and consume-even distort-their judgment and self-regard.
▪ They purposely began directing kickoffs toward Ismail, preferring to avoid then-rookie Napoleon Kaufman.
▪ When irrigation purposely was scant, differences were even greater: 50 percent for cotton and 20 percent for wheat.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Purposely

Purposely \Pur"pose*ly\, adv. With purpose or design; intentionally; with predetermination; designedly.

In composing this discourse, I purposely declined all offensive and displeasing truths.
--Atterbury.

So much they scorn the crowd, that if the throng By chance go right, they purposely go wrong.
--Pope.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
purposely

late 15c., from purpose (n.) + -ly (2).

Wiktionary
purposely

adv. on purpose; intentionally

WordNet
purposely

adv. with intention; in an intentional manner; "he used that word intentionally"; "I did this by choice" [syn: intentionally, deliberately, designedly, on purpose, advisedly, by choice, by design] [ant: by chance, unintentionally, unintentionally]

Usage examples of "purposely".

Montpelier, then fissioned in a purposely ugly way in such a way as to create like hellacious amounts of highly poisonous radioactive wastes, which are mixed with heavy water and specially heated-zirconium-piped through special heavily guarded heated zirconium pipes back down to Montpelier as raw materiel for the massive poisons needed for toxic lithiumization and waste-intenseness and annular fusion.

I merely come forward as an impressionist, and I write purposely the impression of my first Mensur, because I believe that first impressions are more true and useful than opinions blunted by intercourse, or shaped by influence.

Edna knew well that he had purposely dumped the wannigan box into the muskeg pond.

There were purposely no means of communication once inside, and Pastour sometimes spent many hours roaming the aisles of hydroponic pans, where all he had to listen to was the soft hum of the recycling pumps and the buzz of the sunlamps.

By these means alone do we judge the extent of suffering in the land, and, not hearing of many cases of penury, or receiving many applications for assistance, we believe that the assertions of great want being among the people are untrue, and we purposely avoid searching for the truth of such assertions.

Master Prout was exceedingly fond of hearing himself talk, and a shrewd man withal, he had purposely applied to each gentleman the quality in which he was deficient, and spun out his speech with great deliberation, in order to give time for the passion of the opponents to subside.

Emil, andAnas AliAtef was walking purposely up the street, and came within twenty feet of the twins, who were breakfasting on strudel and coffee, along with twenty or so German citizens.

Emil, and Anas Ali Atef was walking purposely up the street, and came within twenty feet of the twins, who were breakfasting on strudel and coffee, along with twenty or so German citizens.

To return: I cannot help believing that General Cass, when he wrote his letter of acceptance, well understood he was to be claimed by the advocates of both sides of this question, and that he then closed the door against all further expressions of opinion purposely to retain the benefits of that double position.

It is an Abode of the Unsymmetrical inasmuch as it is consecrated to the worship of the Imperfect, purposely leaving some thing unfinished for the play of the imagination to complete.

It is even possible that Doctor Varn did it purposely, on an experimental basis.

Senator Winker had purposely passed several calls wherein he could have had the bill handed down for passage.

In this general view of the persecution, which was first authorized by the edicts of Diocletian, I have purposely refrained from describing the particular sufferings and deaths of the Christian martyrs.

It was, at the time, purposely attributed to some of these waggish visitors, a sort of privileged race, who never fail of indulging in numerous good-humoured freaks with the inhabitants of Eton, to show off to the rising generation the pleasantries, whims, and improvements of a college life.

He felt, like Hodge, that Merriwell had purposely missed that second bird, and it annoyed and angered him.