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. 47.5deliberately = intentionally (on purpose)
- He'd sent Richmond deliberately to death.
p. 83.7deliberately = with intentional effort (done on purpose)
- He'd known, perhaps, that Richmond was being deliberately sent to death.
p. 84.2deliberately = intentionally (on purpose)
- She was accused, together with her husband, of having deliberately murdered her former employer
p. 98.7 *
- 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. 116.1
- Blore said deliberately: "It wouldn't be the first you've made-if that gramophone record is to be believed!"
p. 141.3 *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. 288.7deliberate = 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: need to deliberate) to think about or discuss -- especially with great care
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(3)
(deliberate as in: a deliberate thinker) done with great care -- often slowly