All 5 Uses of
deliberate
in
As I Lay Dying
- He spits with decorous and deliberate precision into the pocked dust below the porch.†
Chpt 5
- In the lantern light his face is calm, musing; slowly he strokes his hands on his rain-coated thighs in a gesture deliberate, final and composed.†
Chpt 17
- It's a deliberate flouting of her and of me.†
Chpt 24
- A deliberate flouting of her and of me.†
Chpt 25 *
- there just aint nothing justifies the deliberate destruction of what a man has built with his own sweat
Chpt 53 *deliberate = intentional
Definitions:
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(deliberate as in: deliberate insult) to do something intentionally (do it on purpose)
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(deliberate as in: need to deliberate) to think about or discuss -- especially with great care