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purposely

/pur-puhs-lee/US // ˈpɜr pəs li //UK // (ˈpɜːpəslɪ) //

特意,故意的,特意地,故意

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Definitions

adv.副词 adverb
  1. 1
    • : intentionally; deliberately: He tripped me purposely.
    • : with the particular purpose specified; expressly: I wore that suit purposely to make a good impression.

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Examples

  • Other times in the deposition, she appeared purposely evasive.

  • What Murphy alleges in this case, though, is O’Brien is purposely telling officials at DHS to minimize a major threat, just so the president wouldn’t get mad.

  • They accuse the company of purposely pushing Plated to miss revenue targets following the merger, targets that could’ve resulted in potentially millions more in payouts to investors.

  • It’s a leader’s job to stop that from happening—to reinforce the new state and purposely make it harder to go back.

  • The purpose of these surveys, as Modern Retail has previously reported, is for Facebook to catch dropshippers who are purposely misrepresenting their shipping times.

  • But it certainly contributed, and purposely so, to the defeat of the tough Likud hardliner Yitzhak Shamir in 1992.

  • She throws gigantic, destructive parties, and purposely lights his ottomans on fire.

  • Was that something you had purposely incorporated from Scandal?

  • There, said Obama, “the United States has purposely avoided choosing sides.”

  • But what if I told you there was another burger chain that purposely pays above the minimum wage?

  • Only then did I own that by hook or by crook—and mostly by crook, I was forced to suspect—they had purposely given me the slip.

  • It was not purposely contrived, it was in automatic obedience to deeper impulses than she knew.

  • He purposely lied about the take because Carlson usually charged on the percentage basis.

  • The Governor purposely had the biggest American horses and the largest vehicles brought out to make an impression.

  • She seemed to be purposely emphasising the selfish part of her dissatisfaction out of a kind of reckless defiance.