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# purposely

«purposely» in Mova's school dictionary: **on purpose, deliberately, with the aim of doing it** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

adverb (no forms)

### meaning for a pupil

Purposely means on purpose, deliberately, with the aim of doing it. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/purposely/#m1)

### sense in the lessons

in tales a character purposely does something to trick or help someone

### examples

- He purposely pretended not to hear. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/purposely/#x1)
- I did not purposely break your toy. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/purposely/#x2)
- The fox purposely left a trail of crumbs. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/purposely/#x3)
- The donkey purposely lay down in the water. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/purposely/#x4)

### note

nothing for maths

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «purposely» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/purposely/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.