Advertisement

View definitions for purposefully

purposefully

Discover More

Example Sentences

Examples are provided to illustrate real-world usage of words in context. Any opinions expressed do not reflect the views of Dictionary.com.

In preparing for “Hedda,” Thompson purposefully did not revisit the original play until after she had read DaCosta’s adaptation, wanting that to become her primary text.

Read more on Los Angeles Times

Examples include “fostering a vibrant marketplace of ideas” and “abolishing institutional units that purposefully punish, belittle, and even spark violence against conservative ideas.”

“Chefs have purposefully made it feel unachievable. When you strip it back, it’s all from peasant cookery — people were cooking it on farms, around fires.”

Read more on Salon

But the 12 tracks that make up “Bite Me,” Rapp said she chose purposefully: “I wanted to write, like, mathematically, a good pop album.”

Read more on Los Angeles Times

I moved here in 2020 and, just in that first year, I watched two drivers at two different moments plow, purposefully or not, into the vehicles in front of them.

Read more on Salon

Advertisement

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

Advertisement

Advertisement

Advertisement