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US
/ˈpɝpəsfəɫi/
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[ UK /pˈɜːpəsfəli/ ]
[ UK /pˈɜːpəsfəli/ ]
ADVERB
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in a purposeful manner
he caught the motorcycles in the full glare of his headlights, braked and slipped purposefully out of the car
How To Use purposefully In A Sentence
- Purposefully moraceous make money work from home, but the lintwhite unholiness was that the wildness sokoro was buried me surpassingly was a permanently in the pintado flyer skillet. Rational Review
- The exhibits seem perfectly matched, rather than purposefully included. Times, Sunday Times
- She organized them into an orderly set of people each working purposefully and productively.
- Wallace always felt that ‘selection’ inappropriately imported anthropomorphic notions of Nature choosing purposefully between variants into natural history.
- The exception is a pregnant female out foraging for her nest, who will look healthy and strong, will be moving purposefully and should be left alone. Times, Sunday Times
- They had been taught more purposefully, coached in exam technique and raised and educated in settings where academic achievement was valued.
- Is it your belief that Microsoft purposefully created software that allowed for the ease with which spyware is deployed or that it did so quite by accident (nonetheless bearing the blame for the proliferation this plague)? Spyware defined
- John Griffiths, who lived in the building 22 years before being forced out, accuses Casimir and Arrieta of purposefully damaging the building to make it unlivable.
- He sees the United Nations not simply as bloated, but as encroaching dangerously and purposefully on the sovereignty of member nations.
- Outside of the pretentiously fashion conscious who feel they need to spend more on certain items, no one purposefully spends more on a product than they have to. Over-worked or Over-taxed?, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty