purposefully

Adverb

Meaning

in a purposeful manner

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Examples

Zaphod marched quickly down the passageway, nervous as hell, but trying to hide it by striding purposefully. Douglas Adams

Have you ever played a video game that didn't have escalating levels of difficulty? Well, life can feel like play, too, when we purposefully engage in activities that demand we test and develop our skills. Brendon Burchard

Chinese medicine lies, whether purposefully or not. Lu Xun

People always tell me I'm nothing like my character. Well, hopefully not! He's a character who's very defined. He was purposefully written by Jo Rowling as very one-dimensional in the first few books, because you're supposed to hate him. Tom Felton

I caught glimpses of white-clad figures striding purposefully to and fro, heard men's voices calling each other in tones of authority and urgency, as if life had suddenly become more serious, as if battle were in prospect. L. P. Hartley

That had not been the first time nor had it been the last, but all the years of killing boiled down in essence to that single moment - not the time that came after, but that long and terrible instant when he had watched the lines of men purposefully striding up the slope to kill him. Clifford D. Simak

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