All 7 Uses of
deliberate
in
And Then There Were None
- John Gordon Macarthur, that on the 4th of January, 1917, you deliberately sent your wife's lover, Arthur Richmond, to his death.
p. 43..2 (definition 1)deliberately = intentionally (on purpose)
- He'd sent Richmond deliberately to death.
p. 76..2 (definition 1)deliberately = with intentional effort (done on purpose)
- He'd known, perhaps, that Richmond was being deliberately sent to death.
p. 76..7 (definition 1)deliberately = intentionally (on purpose)
- She was accused, together with her husband, of having deliberately murdered her former employer
p. 89..1 (definition 1) *
- And if you tell me that Anthony Marston, a young bull with no nerves and precious little brains, got the wind up over having mowed down a couple of kids and deliberately put himself out of the way-well, the idea's laughable!
p. 105..5 (definition 1)
- Blore said deliberately: "It wouldn't be the first you've made-if that gramophone record is to be believed!"
p. 127..2 (definition 2) *deliberately = thoughtfully (not impulsively)
- He added that there were many cases of a similar nature going on all the time-cases of deliberate murder-and all quite untouchable by the law.
p. 264..5 (definition 1)deliberate = intentional (done on purpose)
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