deliberate
/dɪˈlɪb.ɚ.ət/ adjective B2- Done on purpose; intentional. · a deliberate attempt to cover up his crime
- Formed with deliberation; carefully considered; not sudden or rash. · a deliberate opinion; a deliberate measure or result
- Of a person, weighing facts and arguments with a view to a choice or decision; carefully considering the probable consequences of a step; slow in determining. · The jury took eight hours to come to its deliberate verdict.
- Not hasty or sudden; slow.
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“It is murder, Watson—refined, cold-blooded, deliberate murder.
Sherlock Holmes, the well-known consulting expert, have each come to the conclusion that the grotesque series of incidents, which have ended in so tragic a fashion, arise from lunacy rather than from deliberate crime.
Here is a man who slips into a house with the deliberate intention of committing murder.
Holmes asked no further question, and Barker, with a deliberate look from one to the other of us, which had, as it seemed to me, something of defiance in it, turned and left the room.
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