pointedly
adverb C2- Explicitly; with emphasis; so as to make a point, especially with criticism.
- Markedly, intentionally conspicuously. · I was pointedly ignored.
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He protested that, except Lady Catherine and her daughter, he had never seen a more elegant woman; for she had not only received him with the utmost civility, but had even pointedly included him in her invitation for the next evening, although utterly unknown to her before.
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