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1
fully committed to achieving a goal
- a soft-spoken but purposeful criminal investigator
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- distrustful,
- doubtful,
- dubious,
- mistrustful,
- skeptical,
- suspicious,
- uncertain,
- unconvinced,
- undecided,
- unsettled,
- unsure
- disinclined,
- indisposed,
- loath
- (also loth or loathe),
- reluctant
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2
made, given, or done with full awareness of what one is doing
- there's a difference between a purposeful lie and an accidental untruth
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“Purposeful.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/purposeful. Accessed 21 Jun. 2021.
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The first known use of purposeful was in 1853
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