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View definitions for purposively

purposively

adverb as in designedly

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Young boys turn cartwheels, women in vivid head-to-toe veils walk purposively past, and donkey carts ferrying water drums trot along dusty dirt roads.

From BBC

With her caring but purposively unmoored essays, she has done just this.

Its founders chose, at the moment of inception, to be intellectually dishonest — which, I would further argue, is in keeping with their purposively constipated "originalist/textualist" approach.

From Salon

Grant evolved into the first purposively Christian pop star, as well as a stylish, subtle singer-songwriter.

According to some observers, this massive data analytics tactic might have been used to purposively swing election campaigns around the world.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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