The most perfidious way of harming a cause consists of defending it deliberately with faulty arguments.
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Deliberately
//dɪˈlɪb(ə)ɹətli//
Synonyms for "deliberately" (75 found)
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Closest matches (15)
Strong matches (23)
Related words (37)
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Antonyms
1 entriesSynonyms
6 entriesRelated terms
1 entriesderived from
1 entriesrelated to
6 entriesTranslations
107 translations across 38 languages.
Arabic
1 entries- عُمْداً adv (intentionally)
Armenian
1 entries- դիտմամբ adv (intentionally)
Bulgarian
1 entries- умишлено adv (intentionally)
Catalan
2 entries- deliberadament adv (intentionally)
- prudentment adv (slowly and carefully)
Chinese
1 entries- 刁工 adv (intentionally)
Chinese Cantonese
3 entries- 專登 /专登 adv (intentionally)
- 故意 adv (intentionally)
- 特登 adv (intentionally)
Chinese Mandarin
4 entries- 刻意 adv (intentionally)
- 存心 adv (intentionally)
- 故意 adv (intentionally)
- 有意 adv (intentionally)
Czech
1 entries- záměrně adv (intentionally)
Danish
4 entries- bevidst adv (intentionally)
- langsomt adv (slowly and carefully)
- med vilje adv (intentionally)
- roligt adv (slowly and carefully)
Dutch
4 entries- bewust adv (intentionally)
- expres adv (intentionally)
- met opzet adv (intentionally)
- opzettelijk adv (intentionally)
Finnish
4 entries- harkitusti adv (intentionally)
- tahallaan adv (intentionally)
- tarkoituksella adv (intentionally)
- tarkoituksellisesti adv (intentionally)
French
1 entries- exprès adv (intentionally)
Galician
1 entries- deliberadamente adv (intentionally)
German
4 entries- absichtlich adv (intentionally)
- bedächtig adv (slowly and carefully)
- mit Absicht adv (intentionally)
- vorsichtig adv (slowly and carefully)
Greek
1 entries- επίτηδες adv (intentionally)
Hebrew
1 entries- בכוונה adv (intentionally)
Hindi
1 entries- जानबूझकर adv (intentionally)
Hungarian
1 entries- szándékosan adv (intentionally)
Icelandic
4 entries- af yfirlögðu ráði adv (intentionally)
- af ásettu ráði adv (intentionally)
- rólega adv (slowly and carefully)
- viljandi adv (intentionally)
Italian
3 entries- deliberatamente adv (intentionally)
- intenzionalmente adv (intentionally)
- per partito preso adv (intentionally)
Japanese
3 entries- じっくり adv (slowly and carefully)
- わざと adv (intentionally)
- 故意に adv (intentionally)
Kazakh
1 entries- әдейі adv (intentionally)
Latin
1 entries- consultō adv (intentionally)
Marathi
1 entries- मुद्दाम adv (intentionally)
Ottoman Turkish
1 entries- مخصوص adv (intentionally)
Persian
1 entries- عمداً adv (intentionally)
Polish
4 entries- celowo adv (intentionally)
- rozmyślnie adv (intentionally)
- umyślnie adv (intentionally)
- uważnie adv (slowly and carefully)
Portuguese
2 entries- deliberadamente adv (intentionally)
- deliberadamente adv (slowly and carefully)
Romanian
4 entries- deliberat adv (intentionally)
- dinadins adv (intentionally)
- intenționat adv (intentionally)
- înadins adv (intentionally)
Russian
4 entries- ме́дленно adv (slowly and carefully)
- наме́ренно adv (intentionally)
- наро́чно adv (intentionally)
- созна́тельно adv (intentionally)
Scottish Gaelic
1 entries- a dh'aon ghnothach adv (intentionally)
Slovak
4 entries- rozvážne adv (slowly and carefully)
- schválne adv (intentionally)
- zámerne adv (intentionally)
- úmyselne adv (intentionally)
Slovene
1 entries- namẹ̄noma adv (intentionally)
Spanish
3 entries- concienzudamente adv (slowly and carefully)
- deliberadamente adv (intentionally)
- deliberadamente adv (slowly and carefully)
Telugu
2 entries- ఉద్దేశపూర్వకంగా adv (intentionally)
- కావాలని adv (intentionally)
Thai
1 entries- เจตนา adv (intentionally)
Turkish
3 entries- bile bile adv (intentionally)
- kasten adv (intentionally)
- kasıtlıca adv (intentionally)
Ukrainian
4 entries- ви́важено adv (slowly and carefully)
- зва́гом adv (slowly and carefully)
- зна́рошна adv (intentionally)
- зна́рошне adv (intentionally)
Sample sentences
14 total sentences available.
The talented young chess player is very bold. He deliberately lays himself open to attack, makes himself vulnerable and then checkmates his opponent when least expected.
Source: tatoeba (67775)
He deliberately ignored me when I passed him in the street.
Source: tatoeba (278330)
He deliberately broke the glass.
Source: tatoeba (296157)
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