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View synonyms for well-aimed

well-aimed

adjective

  1. (of a missile, punch, etc) having been pointed or directed accurately at a person or object

    a well-aimed, precise blow

  2. (of a comment, criticism, etc) obviously and accurately directed at a person, object, etc

    a well-aimed expression of contempt

“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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Example Sentences

Then, at around dawn, two well-aimed mortar shots killed two more former Navy SEALS, Tyrone Woods and Glen Doherty.

The building's exterior was undamaged and this assault was too well-aimed.

The well-aimed shots of the Americans were beginning to tell forcibly against the Spaniards.

Away it bounded, with the ease and certainty of a well-aimed arrow, over a ridge of splintered rocks.

Wherever your glory-toothed lightning bites, it crunches cattle, like a well-aimed bolt.

Several of the besiegers fell before the well-aimed shots of the besieged.

Almost at the same instant three or four other shots rang out, and each proved sufficiently well aimed to reach its mark.

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