How To Use Deliberately In A Sentence

  • Harsh discipline was the child's lot, and they were often terrorized deliberately and, not infrequently, sexually abused.
  • But Labour's focus on abolishing child poverty is not, as he (deliberately) patronisingly claims, for the "aah" factor. Labourhome
  • They've deliberately gone against my wishes and sold the apartment.
  • The interesting element of the game was that it required one to evaluate not films but people; that is, to sift through the prejudices of one’s movie-freak friends and the peccadilloes and quirks of the major reviewers, and by graphing, as it were, what each could be expected to overpraise, underpraise, revile, not notice, or deliberately ignore, one could acquire a very nice sense of the film. Film flam
  • Their preferences ultimately shaped the place of worship that Warren built, and the result of that consumer-driven approach to creating Saddleback is a deliberately contemporary, highly professionalized operation with a carefully orchestrated feel-good atmosphere. American Grace
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  • He deliberately paused outside the door, forcing them to wait in frustration before they dared erupt into excited comment.
  • The terms of the agreement were deliberately vague.
  • Could it be -- and the sudden thought stung him to the quick -- that she was deliberately and consciously degrading herself to what she knew was a lower plane of thought and life, that the bond of their older companionship might still remain unsevered? Phantom Wires A Novel
  • We believe that modern-day Hitlers have deliberately adulterated the oral polio vaccines with antifertility drugs and … viruses which are known to cause HIV and AIDS," prominent physician Datti Ahmed told journalists at the time. Scientific American
  • He poured a tankard of beer, and placed it between the acrobat's feet, eliciting an oath as he deliberately spilt some over his crotch.
  • Many hospitals deliberately tried to avoid challenging or openly discouraging the parents' hopes and expectations for a perfect or near-perfect recovery.
  • She said it was regrettable that a policeman, who had taken an oath, had come before the court and deliberately misled the court.
  • Locale: Staging and dressing together constitute locale and their absence will render it "vague" or "vapid" -- though a writer might, of course, pare away the requisite details deliberately, in the same way they might pare away features distinguishing voice. Archive 2009-12-01
  • A village postwoman has been branded a ‘nasty busy body’ for deliberately withholding mail from a resident who was an ‘outsider’.
  • There is a lot he can do to make life difficult for a candidate he has deliberately chosen to lobby against.
  • ‘uprest’ (“Revolt of Islam”, 3 21 5), which has been described as a nonce-word deliberately coined by Shelley ‘on no better warrant than the exigency of the rhyme.’ The Complete Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley
  • The voice acting is deliberately hammy, the sound effects are loud and intrusive and the gameplay is frantic.
  • Therefore, the small amounts of copper were almost certainly added deliberately to harden the alloy without significantly debasing the silver.
  • He deliberately misled us about the nature of their relationship.
  • Any such definitive analysis, however, would need to respond, at the very least, both to his at once ‘avant- garde’ and hard-headedly commercial use of abstracted, deliberately over-stylised backgrounds and movements, and to the logical circularity which repeatedly dictates the emotional lives of his characters.
  • The lawsuit would likely allege that Symington got the loan because he deliberately misled the pension funds about his financial condition.
  • According to the MSM reports here and here the French crew, of a ship with the very Italian sounding name MSC Napoli, deliberately run aground close to Sidmouth, 165 miles southwest of London. Archive 2007-01-01
  • Hotel staff have told Scotland on Sunday that the man can be seen with matches deliberately setting the curtain ablaze.
  • The opening is one piano note, plonked slowly, deliberately after the other.
  • We don't know if it was done by accident or by design , ie deliberately.
  • I think he was deliberately ignoring me.
  • She was a beautiful ship, in what we call "high kelter;" she seemed a living body, conscious of her own superior power over her opponents, whose shot she despised, as they fell thick and fast about her, while she deliberately took up an admirable position for battle. Frank Mildmay Or, The Naval Officer
  • They walked slowly and deliberately for about two miles until they reached a place known as Dn Leathghlaise, or the “Chieftain’s Fort.” The Pawprints of History
  • Did they - whoever they were - deliberately try to kill him?
  • I'm fairly sure they were deliberately straggling so they could get the prize for coming last.
  • Her promise was deliberately misquoted by her opponents, who then used it against her.
  • I know you think I did it deliberately, but I assure you I did not.
  • The title is in honour of Australia’s first female deputy Prime Minister, Julia Gillard, jibe from the enlightened Mr Heffernan – stating she was unfit for leadership because she was” deliberately barren”. Archive 2008-09-01
  • Anonymous - but in that case, how come so many men end up with there's no nice way to say this lardy boring ultra-respectable old mingers, who they've deliberately chosen as their life partners over foxier alternatives? Why Modern Women Can't Win With Modern Men
  • Let's be honest, business is about exchanging goods for cash; no genuine business would deliberately omit a mention of its products and a description of its operations.
  • C.C. testified that she was also deliberately scalded by her mother on numerous occasions when she was in the bathtub, leaving permanent scars.
  • We must assume his comments were deliberately provocative to attract interest to the rather dry topic of female participation in public life.
  • Isn't Marx making a deliberately exaggerated statement of his own position in order to display its novelty?
  • She deliberately averted her gaze when he came in.
  • But that he would deliberately attempt to break that link was something that he would never admit, even to himself.
  • The accusation that the king aimed at increasing the royal prerogative or deliberately connived at secret influence will not bear scrutiny.
  • The Government has also yielded to public disquiet over the inability to deliberately spoil votes.
  • The accounting firm deliberately destroyed documents to thwart government investigators.
  • Myers accused the government of deliberately massaging the unemployment figures .
  • At first, you could see that the wrestlers were playing along with the crowd, deliberately leaving pauses during their speeches.
  • Nathan was looking at her with a wild expression, the kind he got whenever she had deliberately provoked him.
  • Council chiefs have slammed vandals who deliberately damaged a historic priory.
  • There were a number of design defects and other criminally negligent operational practices which resulted in the leakage of [methyl isocyanate] and these were in the knowledge of the management and were deliberately ignored for commercial reasons," said the CBI in a statement Monday. Court Convicts Seven in Bhopal Gas Leak
  • All trace of his working - class background was deliberately obscured.
  • For her latest film she deliberately chose a cast of unknowns.
  • Psychological comfort is inextricably related to physical comfort although some interactions are deliberately planned by staff to contribute to psychological comfort.
  • Her tone was deliberately insulting.
  • None of this is to say that, historically, we Tibetans were deliberately 'conservationist'. The Natural World
  • (Not a little has been written about 'uprest' ( "Revolt of Islam", 3 21 5), which has been described as a nonce-word deliberately coined by Shelley 'on no better warrant than the exigency of the rhyme.' The Complete Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley — Complete
  • They deliberately used Pali, the language of the common folk for their discourses, not Sanskrit.
  • Rogers was dismissed from the army for deliberately disobeying an order.
  • I'm picking them up, much more deliberately, much more slowly, taking time to really look them over.
  • Some of the objects were miniatures especially made for the funeral, and many were deliberately broken, with only a portion interred in the cinerary urns, with the rest perhaps kept as mementoes for the living, he added. Anglo-Saxons honored their dead with mundane household objects
  • He made a complete idiot of himself over that, and I swear it wasn't done deliberately.
  • As you are undoubtedly aware, the sad old electrical engineering model was deliberately crippled by Lorentz (who deliberately symmetrized Heaviside's original equations at the instigation of the infamous J.P. Morgan) in 1892, prior to the very birth of electrical engineering itself. ZPEnergy.com
  • As might be expected under such circumstances, the literature on this deliberately mysterious country tends to be polarized and politicized, with the ratio of opinion to fact often distressingly high.
  • I pondered all that Chade had wrought, and why he had deliberately withheld this threat to me from my knowledge. THE GOLDEN FOOL: BOOK TWO OF THE TAWNY MAN
  • Her promise was deliberately misquoted by her opponents, who then used it against her.
  • He admitted it was deliberately written in gobbledegook. The Sun
  • You're being deliberately vague.
  • They deliberately shifted off the argument.
  • A supermarket assistant, in cahoots with a customer, wrapped goods and deliberately understated the price.
  • It's the same thing, people deliberately setting prices and inflating charges and stealing our money.
  • Dave felt she was deliberately turning the kids against him.
  • The demarcation is clear: Heumann doesn't allow the two modes to blur together; he deliberately counterpoises one against the other in precarious, hypnotic equilibrium.
  • Sung in a deliberately flat tone, this song is a typically acidic musical joke and for that reason it does not stand up to repeated listens.
  • The killing of children, deliberately targeted-what kind of a person could commit such an act?
  • I have deliberately used the word managing here together with the words strategy and planning because the present/future dichotomy goes into all aspects of managerial work. Managing with Dual Strategies
  • I can say as a parent that I was often innocent and occasionally deliberately ignorant about the areas of sin in my own life.
  • As a contrast, I follow them up with Nigella's Finger Lickin' Ribs, from her book Feast, a deliberately quick recipe designed, apparently, for eating "oozy and sticky" in bed, which cooks at 200C for an hour. How to cook perfect barbecue ribs
  • Yes, we deliberately chose people who were high profile, and also yes, quite cool and quite hip and quite witty.
  • Interestingly, what makes the movie work is precisely that it does (I assume deliberately) seem creepy at the outset: The director wants your initial response to be a certain unease, if not revulsion. Of Human Bondage
  • The description was deliberately non-specific.
  • He deliberately roughed the goal-keeper.
  • Finally, an apparently valid consent may be vitiated if it is obtained by fraud, which includes cases where a professional deliberately withholds information in bad faith, or by misrepresenting the nature of the proposed care.
  • They cliqued up in the corner and played that high school game, where you deliberately exclude people, but I am an adult so I am immune to this game. Whitehelmet Diary Entry
  • She deliberately ignored my question and changed the subject.
  • Pictographs should be used carefully because the graphs may, either accidentally or deliberately, misrepresent the data.
  • Some photographs look as though they've been deliberately composed, with the figures and their expressions carefully arranged to convey a particular message.
  • Though the Chief Minister ignored the interruptions a couple of times, the third time she said someone was doing it deliberately.
  • The global warming postulate is based almost entirely on models, and today's models are deliberately biased to support global warming. Trust the Experts: A Reasonable, Defeasible Presumption, Bryan Caplan | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty
  • The amusement of the onlookers changed to gaping wonder when they saw him deliberately bore a hole in the bottom of the boat near the bow, after which, fixing up some kind of derrick, he tipped the boat so that the water she had taken in at the stern ran out in front, and she floated safely over the dam. The Boys' Life of Abraham Lincoln
  • Everyone wants peace, no one wants war, and if you aren't prepared to march then you're either gung ho or deliberately awkward.
  • And we now have compelling evidence that German forces deliberately carried out a scorched-earth policy; they flooded mines, blew up bridges and stripped bare factories as they retreated.
  • Estimates have been deliberately pitched on the conservative side.
  • Each word was annunciated deliberately as though allowing time to access a vocabulary database hidden away somewhere. 365 tomorrows » 2009 » March : A New Free Flash Fiction SciFi Story Every Day
  • Michelle had deliberately placed the card in front of the old woman on the far side of the table.
  • She deliberately stayed behind after work to go with me.
  • They are deliberately flouting the law in order to obtain an advantage over their competitors.
  • I was asked to enter some of my favourite music, so being deliberately awkward, I entered four of my less well known favourites, first among them being Lucy Woodward.
  • In this exploration of armed hold-ups, convicted armed robbers speak candidly about how they conduct their crimes and about the terror that they deliberately create.
  • When she questioned Gunther about the future, he was deliberately evasive. THE ENDLESS GAME
  • She continued deliberately to toss the books severally upon the floor.
  • In order to avoid charges of heresy (the Inquisition were always sniffing around him), Nostradamus wrote in a deliberately vague and obscure manner.
  • It is, of course, deliberately provocative and designed to tempt an unwitting Unionite into criticising his choice of closure before blinding him with the weight and depth of his erudition.
  • Chris is either misremembering or deliberately conflating two separate issues.
  • She speaks deliberately and methodically, but enthusiastically, with an italic emphasis on seemingly random words.
  • Police launched a murder inquiry almost eight weeks ago after disclosing that the cord on the main parachute and the strapping on his reserve chute had been deliberately severed.
  • Are you being deliberately obtuse?
  • They accused him of deliberately sabotaging the peace talks.
  • The case of the prosecution and prosecutors is that the couple intentionally and deliberately starved their child to death and used the term vegan to escape prosecution. Archive 2007-05-01
  • Their record sleeves and videos are cryptic, self-mythologising, deliberately uninformative.
  • For the remaining three hours of the exercise, I stank to high heaven with other members of the patrol deliberately evading me.
  • Tombs of ecclesiastics (Obazine Abbey, Hereford Cathedral) were made deliberately shrinelike, with relief carving or a pinnacled canopy.
  • Then a clumsy foot in a cow-leather boot or heavy wooden-pegged veldschoen would be thrust out, and the boy would be tripped up and go down, and the crowd would deliberately kick and trample the life out of him, and no one would be able to say how or by whom the thing had been done. The Dop Doctor
  • The deliberately sculptured profiles of the Tower proved extremely difficult to build because of the complexity of the necessary framework.
  • It is a deliberately powerful metaphor, which Attenborough uses to good effect.
  • Then he began to rebutton the easy, brown great-coat, going deliberately up the whole series, from the small button below, to keep the laps together, up to the one on the neck, or where the neck would have been if Jog had not been all stomach up to the chin. Mr. Sponge's Sporting Tour
  • He thought that a compromise between the two entremes was feasible, by which a certain element of picturesqueness might be introduced into our programmes without exposing us to the charge of deliberately seeking to denationalise ourselves. Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 146, April 1, 1914
  • It's unfair to suggest that he deliberately provokes dressing room conflict, but he's not the ideal chap to apply soothing balm when it breaks out.
  • A CAT was injured after being caught in a deliberately-set noose snare.
  • It's played out in cinema-verité, all rough cutting, long track shots and, in the end, a distinctively and deliberately unpolished style.
  • Some have accused Stoiber of deliberately trying to sabotage Merkel in a fit of pique at her rapid rise.
  • Having deliberately created speculation about a snap election, Howard is now in a position to say that the only way to end the speculation is by holding one.
  • Could Eddie have run out of that corner deliberately because he couldn't face the consequences of his gambling?
  • What it omits is that ACA was using that experience analyzing credit risk to deliberately put together a terrible portfolio. The Volokh Conspiracy » The Goldman Fraud Suit
  • The accusation that the king aimed at increasing the royal prerogative or deliberately connived at secret influence will not bear scrutiny.
  • WASHINGTON - Barack Obama moved emphatically Wednesday to erase the legacy of the past eight years by calling a bevy of Mideast leaders, circulating a not-yet-released executive order to close the Guantanamo prison and deliberately diminishing the powers of his own presidency. Top Stories - Google News
  • I have no sympathy," replied Prudence, "with a man who deliberately fuddles himself with strong drink. The Ragged Edge
  • Â The family watches boyfriend Matt with careful scrutiny and the scene is deliberately set up for them to enjoy his obvious discomfort, which seems a bit mean as he and Astra teleport into a ridiculously complex and beautiful Kirby-esque skyscape filled with planets and dots and fooferaw. Review: Astro City - Astra Special #1 | Major Spoilers - Comic Book Reviews and News
  • You deliberately and calculatedly abused trust placed in you by pupils and staff.
  • He doesn't really mean that—he's just being deliberately provocative.
  • At the same time, though, a monk who deliberately ends the life of a patient, even from compassionate motives, is expelled from the monkhood and can never reordain in this life, so there's no room for euthanasia or assisted suicide. Educating Compassion by Thanissaro Bhikkhu
  • He deliberately forked a bite of food from his companion's plate, ate it.
  • It was natural that this cynicism should infect poetic self-reflection, hence certain theoretico-aesthetic “movements” and manifestoes; I suspect, although I wasn’t there to witness what actually happened, that Ange is right in saying that certain avant garde poetry had tried to deliberately retreat from the figure; however, in retrospect, one finds that all poetic practice, in practice, was never really able do completely without the world or its actual things. Writing and Failure (Part 8) : Christian Bök : Harriet the Blog : The Poetry Foundation
  • How can anger, or any other emotion or feeling, get someone to go against what they have deliberately resolved on doing?
  • Were the unloveable critters thrown into bowls of rice deliberately?
  • The actor has slammed his co-star for claiming he deliberately blanked him on the set of the boxing movie.
  • First, their book provides an up-close look at people who have deliberately and self-consciously chosen to go against conventional norms about work hours.
  • MTV is launching a global marketing push to tackle climate change that includes a TV ad attacking businesses guilty of "greenwash" - deliberately misleading consumers about their eco-credentials. Media news, UK and world media comment and analysis | guardian.co.uk
  • Inherent in these excerpts are not only the self-exculpatory motives but also the persuasive elements of domination deliberately subduing the coercive aspects of an unequal relationship.
  • The checkerboards of alternately horizontal and vertical stripes - lines that are also shapes - are not really gestural, as the paint is applied quite deliberately.
  • when two honest witnesses give accounts of the same event that differ diametrically, how can anyone prove that the evidence you gave was deliberately false?
  • Police believe dissidents deliberately set the car ablaze in the knowledge that someone would contact the emergency services.
  • You can tell that he's quite deliberately outgrown his indie audience now because you actually enjoy hearing him sing.
  • This suggests that Mr Lion had been deliberately singled out as a scapegoat and given no time to defend himself.
  • A Christian religious fanatic deliberately crocked the deal by leading a noisy pirate raid on Mecca. Matthew Yglesias » By Request: An Egyptian Gaza?
  • It deliberately puts in a lot of fiddling little details that drag out the story.
  • It seems that the planes deliberately violated the cease-fire agreement.
  • He has deliberately deceived us.
  • His sister said he had deliberately given the hospital a false name and address.
  • A cynic, my dear Arthur (_he opens case deliberately, puts cigarette in mouth, and extracts gold match-box from right-hand trouser_) is a man who (_strikes match_) knows the price of (_lights cigarette_) -- everything, and (_standing with match in one hand and cigarette in the other_) the value of --- pff (_blows out match_) of (_inhales deeply from cigarette and blows out a cloud of smoke_) -- nothing. The Sunny Side
  • His voice deliberately gentle, maintaining the same quiescent satiety their bodies were experiencing. WHEN THE APRICOTS BLOOM
  • They've deliberately gone against my wishes and sold the apartment.
  • The letter was deliberately couched in very vague terms.
  • Anyway, in the age of General Ludd, the device of a deliberately diffused and "anonymized" voice of hidden radical orators and leaders was conventional. Shelley, Adorno, and the Scandal of Commited Art
  • That said, West deliberately takes his time building up to the dark arts activities not so subtly parlayed in the title epic-so-as-to-be-a-dash-humorous. The House of the Devil Available Pre-Theatrical Release on VOD and Amazon | /Film
  • To disfranchise women is deliberately to turn from knowledge and grope in ignorance. DARKWATER
  • Later-arriving grain types include some that were deliberately introduced by seedsmen and scientists towards the end of the 1800s. 10. Sorghum: Specialty Types
  • They deliberately biased their sample by examining stream and river systems downstream from urban or intense agricultural areas.
  • Another American priest who frequently visits the Vatican described the pope as "harried," which is an unsettling adjective, given that it is so rarely applied to Benedict, an academic by profession and disposition who always acts very deliberately and is rarely knocked off his game by daily events and pressures. AOL News Collection:All top stories collection
  • They're not actually rude or deliberately slack (unlike some of the Cafe Uno staff), just dubiously competent.
  • Staff are chatty, well-intentioned and deliberately unstuffy which all adds to the charm and there's also an acceptable mini wine list for wine buffs (as opposed to beer fans) which is very sensibly priced.
  • Last year, the kitchen area of the building had to be replaced after it was badly damaged by a fire which was started deliberately.
  • Italy get a free-kick wide on the left, from which De Rossi deliberately stands five yards offside.
  • They deliberately shifted off the argument.
  • To be deliberately provocative, I asked him to call this period the Toronto new wave.
  • South Wales Police believe the blaze may have been started deliberately after finding two separate seats to the fire.
  • Albanians, our collocutor emphasizes, are doing all of this deliberately and in coordination with each other.
  • Patients may miss appointments, may not actually swallow the pills, or may deliberately regurgitate the medications.
  • There is a clunky, inelegant quality to these objects that is matched by the deliberately crude quality of the plywood tables and shelves on which they rest.
  • I don't know if she accidentally picked up the phone or deliberately did that.
  • The Court noted that double jeopardy is generally not implicated when a defendant obtains a verdict or chooses to prevent one by successfully seeking a mistrial, but that there is an exception to that rule that applies when a prosecutor has engaged in prejudicial misconduct deliberately intended to provoke a mistrial motion. Constitutional Issues
  • The head of the Catholic Church in Mozambique is under fire after bizarre allegations he made, saying that condoms shipped to Mozambique by European manufacturer's are deliberately infected with HIV: Maputo Archbishop Francisco Chimoio claimed some anti-retroviral drugs were also infected "in order to finish quickly the African people". Archive 2007-10-01
  • Slang is almost by definition undefinable, deliberately outside the dictionary.
  • But eyewitnesses had earlier told the court how the youth had set upon Mr Worrell, kneeing him in the face before deliberately stabbing him in the chest.
  • The rules of engagement for police marksmen are deliberately simple and unambiguous.
  • White also was captured on camera, certainly deliberately, with Shields next to him at the April 24 Aldo vs. Faber pay-per-view, not exactly dousing the talk that Shields might jump to the UFC. USA TODAY/SB Nation consensus MMA rankings
  • Her promise was deliberately misquoted by her opponents, who then used it against her.
  • The Thing could be deliberately infuriating at times, but it didn't pay to ignore its advice.
  • By refusing to install the necessary hardware BT is quite deliberately disadvantaging rural areas.
  • The lawsuit would likely allege that Symington got the loan because he deliberately misled the pension funds about his financial condition.
  • Don't lump them in with the drug dealers and burglars deliberately cheating the state.
  • _They had heard all the arguments calling its existence in question_ which Lord Denman, Lord Cottenham, and Lord Campbell had heard; they were _in the daily and hourly administration of that branch of the law with reference to which the question arose_; they took ample time to consider the matter, and deliberately affirmed the existence of the rule, and the valid grounds on which it rested. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 56, Number 349, November, 1844
  • Keynes deliberately misrepresented the views of his opponents.
  • And on the corners where dealers gather, broken glass and trash are deliberately strewn about the curbsides and sidewalks to make it easier to drop drug stashes among the litter and retrieve them later.
  • They were deliberately misinformed about their rights.
  • Gore came across as an earnest, deliberately spoken politician, often gesturing with his hands.
  • The commonly held belief among activists is that Canada, as an exporter of GM food and opponent of the Biosafety Protocol, deliberately tried to decapitate the anti-GM bloc.
  • But these trees were not indigenous to southern England, and whilst self-seeded from their forebears, the originals were deliberately planted in a very dim and distant past to mark critical points on trackways, be it a crossroads, junction or simply to act as a waymark. Landmark Firs
  • The narrative technique is deliberately non-linear and complex, the language richly poetic and suffused with biblical references.
  • She deliberately tried to exclude David from the conversation and show him how de trop he was.
  • Evidence suggests that the private car was deliberately uncoupled.
  • His words to the press were deliberately equivocal - he didn't deny the reports but neither did he confirm them.
  • Deliberately provoke your adversary. Find something that makes them angry and keep wheedling away on this point until they lose their temper and so the argument.
  • Ingredients like olive tapénade and truffle vinaigrette have become routine at Tavern, deliberately raising its level of culinary sophistication.
  • Many of these slave workers, male and female, deliberately sabotaged the work that they did - so in their own way they helped the war effort of the Allies.
  • Many people doing boring or repetitive jobs deliberately introduce a certain amount of stress to make the routine more exciting.
  • Contractors in connivance with corrupt officials do shoddy work deliberately, so that they get a fresh contract soon for the job.
  • It is a strange place for someone who is so deliberately unflashy to live.
  • Brooke rolled her eyes and deliberately turned her back to him, pretending to be suddenly engrossed in a fascinating conversation with Jane.
  • That is why he deliberately left so few personal records behind; that explains the innovatory brilliance of his greatest plays.
  • I can quote you several instances of her being deliberately rude.
  • Harsh discipline was the child's lot, and they were often terrorized deliberately and, not infrequently, sexually abused.
  • And we'll see whether that was done, you know, malevolently or deliberately or not.

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