All 7 Uses of
deliberate
in
Babbitt
- They furnished Babbitt with many happy evenings of discussion, during which he announced firmly, "I'm not strait-laced, and I don't mind seeing a fellow throw in a drink once in a while, but when it comes to deliberately trying to get away with a lot of hell-raising all the while like the Doppelbraus do, it's too rich for my blood!"†
Chpt 3
- Fact, I think a fellow that's willing to deliberately up and profit by lying ought to be shot!"†
Chpt 4
- And he deliberately keeps it up till I bust out and say a lot of things I don't mean.†
Chpt 20
- He plodded into the house, deliberately went to the refrigerator and rifled it.†
Chpt 23 *
- All the boys at the Athletic Club and the Boosters' are sore, the way you go on deliberately touting Doane and his bunch of hell-hounds, and talking about being liberal—which means being wishy-washy—and even saying this preacher guy Ingram isn't a professional free-love artist.†
Chpt 29
- At the Roughnecks' Table at the club, Verg Gunch talked of the Good Citizens' League and (it seemed to Babbitt) deliberately left him out of the invitations to join.†
Chpt 31
- Eathorne looked at him deliberately, hesitated, and gave him a nod more contemptuous than a direct cut.†
Chpt 32
Definition:
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(deliberate as in: need to deliberate) to think about or discuss -- especially with great care