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purposeful

[ pur-puhs-fuhl ]

Phonetic (Standard)IPA

adjective

purposeful

/ ˈpɜːpəsfʊl /

Purposefully is sometimes wrongly used where purposely is meant: he had purposely (not purposefully ) left the door unlocked

First recorded in 1850–55; purpose + -ful

There are a number of inadvertent and purposeful ways for universities to skew their Clery Act numbers.

There is much purposeful hustle and bustle but tasks go uncompleted; confusion reigns.

Bitcoin serves a purpose that is at once expressive and purposeful.

So does Meditations in Green, but its incoherence feels purposeful, mimetic.

Here in Davos, Blankfein swept through the Congress Center with the same purposeful stride as all the other CEOs.

The sound of that quiet, purposeful hiss of the steam sent a thrill along the nerves.

It's a good House—good boys—manly, self-reliant, purposeful.

"Then I hope he will succeed in finding one in Boston," replied the girl, with purposeful evasion of the direct attack.

In his doctrine of creation in time, Maimonides endeavored to defend God's personality and voluntary and purposeful activity.

Certainly, too, much of savage marriage law is of ancient and purposeful institution.

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