All 4 Uses of
deliberate
in
To Kill a Mockingbird
- I never deliberately learned to read, but somehow I had been wallowing illicitly in the daily papers.
p. 23..2 (definition 1)deliberately = with intentional effort
- He closed it, folded it deliberately, dropped it in his lap, and pushed his hat to the back of his head.
p. 201..9 (definition 2) *deliberately = slowly (with great care)
- ...a lawyer once deliberately pushed a pile of books to the floor in a desperate effort to wake him up.
p. 220..3 (definition 1) *deliberately = intentionally
- I had never encountered a being who deliberately perpetrated fraud against himself.
p. 268..9 (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