All 15 Uses of
deliberate
in
1984 by Orwell
- Partly it was a sort of hymn to the wisdom and majesty of Big Brother, but still more it was an act of self-hypnosis, a deliberate drowning of consciousness by means of rhythmic noise.
p. 16..9 (definition 1)deliberate = intentional
- ...almost as though the bird were deliberately showing off its virtuosity.
p. 124..1 (definition 1)deliberately = intentionally
- It was a memory that he must have deliberately pushed out of his consciousness over many years.
p. 160..7 (definition 1)
- He rose deliberately from his chair and came towards them across the soundless carpet.
p. 168..9 (definition 2) *deliberately = slowly with care
- In so far as he had time to remember it, he was not troubled by the fact that every word he murmured into the speakwrite, every stroke of his ink-pencil, was a deliberate lie.
p. 183..3 (definition 1) *deliberate = intentional
- If the machine were used deliberately for that end, hunger, overwork, dirt, illiteracy, and disease could be eliminated within a few generations.
p. 189..6 (definition 1)deliberately = intentionally
- It is deliberate policy to keep even the favoured groups somewhere near the brink of hardship, because a general state of scarcity increases the importance of small privileges and thus magnifies the distinction between one group and another.
p. 191..6 (definition 1)deliberate = intentional
- The discontents produced by his bare, unsatisfying life are deliberately turned outwards and dissipated by such devices as the Two Minutes Hate, and the speculations which might possibly induce a skeptical or rebellious attitude are killed in advance by his early acquired inner discipline.
p. 211..9 (definition 1)deliberately = intentionally
- To tell deliberate lies while genuinely believing in them, to forget any fact that has become inconvenient, and then, when it becomes necessary again, to draw it back from oblivion for just so long as it is needed, to deny the existence of objective reality and all the while to take account of the reality which one denies — all this is indispensably necessary.
p. 214..7 (definition 1)deliberate = intentional
- Even the names of the four Ministries by which we are governed exhibit a sort of impudence in their deliberate reversal of the facts.
p. 216..6 (definition 1)
- These contradictions are not accidental, nor do they result from ordinary hypocrisy; they are deliberate exercises in doublethink.
p. 216..7 (definition 1)
- Before they exposed their victims to public trial, they deliberately set themselves to destroy their dignity.
p. 254..2 (definition 1)deliberately = intentionally
- O'Brien leaned over him, deliberately bringing the worn face nearer.
p. 264..0 (definition 1)
- He sat down on the plank bed, his back against the wall and the slate on his knees, and set to work deliberately at the task of re-educating himself.
p. 276..6 (definition 1)
- She moved her clumsy shoe a few centimetres and deliberately crushed a twig.
p. 292..2 (definition 1)
Definitions:
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(1) (deliberate as in: deliberate insult) to do something intentionally (do it on purpose)
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(2) (deliberate as in: a deliberate thinker) done with great care -- often slowly