deliberate

But we were attempting a deliberate naiveté, a decision to approach these books as if they might have something to teach us.

“The lovers are seated across the room from each other,” he begins in his deliberate tones.

Poindexter followed with a recitation of the Iran program filled with deliberate inaccuracies.

A pitcher's life is one day of deliberate self-injury, followed by three days of healing, then a fresh injury.

In or out of uniform his motion is languid, his voice relaxed and mellifluous, his movements deliberate, confident.

The apparent slightness of these English changes reveals their deliberate subtlety.

Isabel, completely ignored, waited until the story was finished, and then made a deliberate move.

He made a deliberate effort to put himself in Zeal's place, and after several failures accomplished the feat.

For her to testify that she did not love—and had never loved Jean Baptiste, he knew would be a deliberate falsehood.

After tea Betty executed a quite deliberate manœuvre to avoid having him for a partner at tennis.