All 3 Uses of
deliberate
in
The Great Gatsby
- Her gray, sun-strained eyes stared straight ahead, but she had deliberately shifted our relations, and for a moment I thought I loved her.
p. 58..7deliberately = intentionally
- I don't mean that he had traded on his phantom millions, but he had deliberately given Daisy a sense of security; he let her believe that he was a person from much the same stratum as herself — that he was fully able to take care of her.
p. 149..5
- When I passed the ashheaps on the train that morning I had crossed deliberately to the other side of the car.
p. 156..0 *
Definition:
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(deliberate as in: deliberate insult) to do something intentionally (do it on purpose)