purposeful
She ran purposefully back to the house.
The Senator walked purposefully onto the Senate floor to cast her vote.
He purposefully worked to prove the critics wrong.
He was purposefully vague.
The research evidence is being distorted and purposefully misrepresented.
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pigheadedly
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