advisedly
Example Sentences
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Yet it takes deadly aim — I use the term “deadly” advisedly — at public health in America, including our nearly 120-year tradition of enforcing vaccine mandates on adults and schoolchildren alike.
From Los Angeles Times
She also said: "Clearly the events of the last few weeks have been difficult - and I use this word advisedly and deliberately - in some respects very traumatic."
From BBC
This advisedly clunky emphasis on fibs and their detection is something of a Johnson trademark.
From Washington Post
“We built them so lovingly. You use a word like lovingly advisedly when you’re talking about a hunk of metal, but we put everything we had into those things.”
From New York Times
The result was a very powerful mounting, and I use the word advisedly: It sometimes seemed like an exhibit.
From New York Times
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