Deliberately

The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • With careful consideration or deliberation; with full intent; not hastily or carelessly: as, a deliberately formed purpose.
  • With slowness or deliberation.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • adverb. With careful consideration, or deliberation; circumspectly; warily; not hastily or rashly; slowly.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • adverb. Intentionally, or after deliberation; not accidentally.
  • adverb. Taking one's time, slowly and carefully.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • adverb. in a deliberate unhurried manner
  • adverb. with intention; in an intentional manner
  • Word Usage
    "Suppose you were in my place and I in yours, and you had told me never -- _never_ to take the pointers out to run hares, and I knew I was disobeying you, and yet I had done it deliberately -- _deliberately_ disobeyed you -- what would you do? ""
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