as in intentionally
with full awareness of what one is doing
the real estate agent purposely withheld information that would have discouraged us from buying the property
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Recent Examples of purposely
Astros reliever Hector Neris purposely balked to advance a runner to third, then had an exchange with Red Sox third base coach Kyle Hudson that led to a dustup between the teams.
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Ryan Morik, FOXNews.com, 5 Aug. 2025
Such marketing prompted multiple lawsuits alleging Juul purposely targeted underage customers.
—Jamie Ducharme, NBC news, 20 July 2025
If anything, human therapists, due to their human foibles, are less likely to give holistic mental health guidance due to purposely avoiding the friendship side.
—Lance Eliot, Forbes.com, 5 Aug. 2025
So the actor introduced some physical comedy into his performance, purposely bumping into objects.
—Tatiana Siegel, Variety, 5 Aug. 2025
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Ryan Morik, FOXNews.com, 5 Aug. 2025
Such marketing prompted multiple lawsuits alleging Juul purposely targeted underage customers.
—Jamie Ducharme, NBC news, 20 July 2025
If anything, human therapists, due to their human foibles, are less likely to give holistic mental health guidance due to purposely avoiding the friendship side.
—Lance Eliot, Forbes.com, 5 Aug. 2025
So the actor introduced some physical comedy into his performance, purposely bumping into objects.
—Tatiana Siegel, Variety, 5 Aug. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for purposely
Adverb
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Hire early, hire intentionally—and train people into your culture before they’re thrown into chaos. 4.—
Aleksandr Zemel,
Forbes.com,
14 Aug. 2025
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As civilians, intentionally targeting members of the press is a war crime.—
Ellie Cook,
MSNBC Newsweek,
14 Aug. 2025
Adverb
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Their erasure was not only physical but historical, deliberately left out of textbooks and maps.—
Ed Gaskin,
Boston Herald,
16 Aug. 2025
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From painting it on her hand before concerts to deliberately using it as an Easter egg in her album rollouts, Swift has a big reputation for keeping 13 at the heart of her legacy.—
Valerie Mesa,
People.com,
15 Aug. 2025
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“Purposely.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/purposely. Accessed 21 Aug. 2025.
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