advisedly

Example Sentences

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This is a country that purports to worship, and I use that term advisedly, the rule of law.

From Slate • Feb. 3, 2026

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 • Apr. 25, 2023

The biggest insult you could deliver to an abstract painter was that his art — I use the pronoun advisedly — was “decorative.”

From New York Times • Nov. 26, 2021

Both of those dates were chosen advisedly: May 5 was the 60th anniversary of Shepard’s pioneering flight, and July 20 is the 52nd anniversary of the Apollo 11 moon landing.

From Scientific American • Jul. 20, 2021

The figure is advisedly chosen, for if the canneries dipped their mouths into the bay the canned sardines which emerge from the other end would be metaphorically, at least, even more horrifying.

From "Cannery Row" by John Steinbeck