purposively
- a word derived from purposive.
Example Sentences
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Young boys turn cartwheels, women in vivid head-to-toe veils walk purposively past, and donkey carts ferrying water drums trot along dusty dirt roads.
From BBC ● Dec. 2, 2024
With her caring but purposively unmoored essays, she has done just this.
From Washington Post ● Mar. 4, 2022
In that last sentence, Barrett and other textualists might note that I purposively use the subjunctive.
From Salon ● Oct. 25, 2020
Grant evolved into the first purposively Christian pop star, as well as a stylish, subtle singer-songwriter.
From The New Yorker ● Sep. 17, 2018
In other words, it "claimed to show how something purposively constructed could arise by absolute chance; at any rate this holds of Darwinism as codified in the seventies and eighties."
From Science and Morals and Other Essays by Windle, Bertram Coghill Alan, Sir
