purposive
adjective
having, showing, or acting with a purpose, intention, or design.
purposively
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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
Children in the kindergarten can think out their little problems purposively, even though reasoning is supposed to mark the high school pupil.
From How to Teach by George Drayton Strayer
