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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When on the top of this I am able to show that the blood mark on the windowsill was deliberately placed there by Barker, in order to give a false clue to the police, you will admit that the case grows dark against him.
“Is it not extraordinary that a burglar—and a burglar who had had some previous experience—should deliberately break into a house at a time when he could see from the lights that two of the family were still afoot?”
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.”
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