ACQUIESCENTLY Synonyms: 18 Similar and Opposite Words

acquiescently

adverb

as in deliberately

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Rather than mimicking a sneaker or a loafer, the Gardana leans into a deliberately odd silhouette.

— Ashley Lynch, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 4 Nov. 2026
Russia denies deliberately targeting civilians, despite strikes regularly hitting apartment buildings and other civilian infrastructure.

— CBS News, CBS News, 4 Nov. 2026

Definition of deliberately

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This perception holds even among the young and the politically and socially progressive, who would never consciously think that such acts are morally sullying.

— Paul Bloom, New Yorker, 6 Nov. 2026
No one in that chain has to consciously exclude women for the result to be uneven.

— Nili Sangani, Forbes.com, 5 Nov. 2026

Definition of consciously

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Those who knowingly advance frivolous or politically motivated cases should face professional discipline, including disbarment.

— Voice of the People, New York Daily News, 6 Nov. 2026
Medicare should not knowingly pay hospitals far more for drugs than the hospitals paid to acquire them.

— Ted Okon, The Orlando Sentinel, 5 Nov. 2026

Definition of knowingly

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When over half of shoppers intentionally provide proxy emails or fake numbers to avoid spam and data exposure, brands end up building marketing strategies on flawed, unresponsive databases while alienating distrustful consumers.

— Arthur Zaczkiewicz, Footwear News, 4 Nov. 2026
Matthew O’Brien told jurors that surveillance images, cellphone location records and fire science would establish that Rinderknecht intentionally ignited brush on a Pacific Palisades hillside in the first minutes of New Year’s Day 2025.

— Brittny Mejia, Los Angeles Times, 4 Nov. 2026

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