deliberately
/dɪˈlɪb.(ə.)ɹət.li/ adverb B2- Intentionally, or after deliberation; not accidentally. · He deliberately broke that, didn't he?
- Taking one's time, slowly and carefully. · After being called upon, he strode deliberately up to the blackboard.
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As we passed it Holmes, to my unutterable astonishment, leaned over in front of me and deliberately knocked the whole thing over.
He must have stayed in the room some little time after the murder, for we found blood-stained water in the basin, where he had washed his hands, and marks on the sheets where he had deliberately wiped his knife.”
This murder had, on the contrary, been done most deliberately, and the perpetrator had left his tracks all over the room, showing that he had been there all the time.
She deliberately picked up Anne’s clothes, placed them neatly on a prim yellow chair, and then, taking up the candle, went over to the bed.
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