advisedly

Example Sentences

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It’s hard to watch, and readers who seek it out online should do so advisedly.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 3, 2026

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

This advisedly clunky emphasis on fibs and their detection is something of a Johnson trademark.

From Washington Post • Feb. 2, 2023

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