on purpose

SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Planning, expecting and arranging
accidentally
accidentally on purposeidiom
advertent
advisedly
aim at something
bargain
conscious
game something out
have something in mindidiom
have something up your sleeveidiom
horizon scanning
how are you fixed for something?idiom
pencil
provide for someone
provident
providently
provision
purpose
purposefully
settle

purposely | American Dictionary

purposely
adverb[ not gradable ]
us/ˈpɜr·pəs·li/
with a specific intent:
I purposely spoke loud enough to be overheard.

Examples of purposely

purposely
We have purposely avoided providing suggested solutions for the examples given in this paper.
They only asked one thing - that you didn't purposely lie to them.
Thus, the architecture of these key city centre buildings was the 'architecture of rhetoric', purposely designed to evoke particular reactions and ideas.
The filmgoer, given only sound effects, is purposely left in the dark.
An intentional process is actuated purposely by some mechanism, often human.
This is because the decisions are purposely postponed until all information is available.
This was purposely done to minimise the researchers' interpretation bias and to maximise the depth of the informants' responses.
For only 14 of the remaining 30 families (24.5%) the mental health worker purposely did not introduce the study.
The test trajectories are purposely constructed to provide challenging situations in which it is more difficult to track turns or sudden changes in direction.
And, significantly, it is administered by purposely designed and famously powerful institutionalized mechanisms-mechanisms that are unique to the legal system.
I have purposely excluded these from the map as the likelihood of these places being endemic foci is extremely remote.
A wood exoskeleton envelopes the pavilion, acting as a kind of 'giant order' - purposely out-of-scale with both the addition and the house.
For a millennium, their texts were purposely filled with dissimulation and the interpolation of tangential information.
According to the complainants, the basculero purposely set the scale to under-weigh their cane loads.
I have purposely phrased this question more broadly than 'one's sense of identity'.
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