adverb
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
deliberately exaggerated (= in a way that is intended or planned )
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She blinked twice in a deliberately exaggerated gesture of surprise.
deliberately provocative
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She was accused of being deliberately provocative .
deliberately/openly flout sth
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The union had openly flouted the law.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
provocative
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Roman, as always, was being arrogant, deliberately provocative .
■ VERB
avoid
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During her lunch hour she shopped, deliberately avoiding the part of town in which Giles's office was situated.
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Some of them fear he's now deliberately avoiding them.
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It seems likely, moreover, that the police deliberately avoided mixing it in the more perilous districts.
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In spite of the repeated assurances of his gushingly polite secretary, Mattie knew that he was deliberately avoiding her.
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He had a feeling that she was deliberately avoiding him - that she feared to be alone with him.
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There is an additional problem since coin designs might sometimes deliberately avoid the most recent currents in art.
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So much so that I deliberately avoided anything outside it which might affect my emotions or disturb my thoughts.
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The artist as critic in this case deliberately avoided the historical context of the pictures she was discussing.
choose
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Oliver was annoyed that Angelina had deliberately chosen to sit next to Sir Thomas.
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He will often seem to deliberately choose the activity that is opposite of what the parents want.
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We had deliberately chosen a villa with easy access to the sea, but the children preferred their own pool.
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It was what she had deliberately chosen .
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The default is the setting or choice you get unless you deliberately choose something else.
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He deliberately chose the day to coincide with the Paddington election.
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These 15 champions and contenders have been deliberately chosen to cover all eras of the modern game.
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I deliberately chose bright colours to illustrate that green is not the only option.
create
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Giap had deliberately created that impression by staging diversionary actions around the country.
flout
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Michael Kalisher, for Birds Eye, said there was no way the company had deliberately flouted the law.
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If some one deliberately flouts the law in that manner, they only have themselves to blame for the consequences.
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Sometimes we deliberately flout the charge to be relevant: to signal embarrassment or a desire to change the subject.
ignore
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Several times over. Deliberately ignoring her, Patrick concentrated on his surroundings.
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And Lais was deliberately ignoring him.
keep
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You're deliberately keeping me away from her - and if you ask me, that tells a story in itself.
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The routine was unvarying, and I deliberately kept it as a technique of maintaining a personal link between us.
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It lacked substance - almost as much as had my fantasies that Edward was deliberately keeping us apart.
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The groups are deliberately kept small so participants can raise individual concerns and cases.
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Then she wondered suddenly if Tom Russell had known she would find it intimidating and had deliberately kept her in the dark.
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Matilda had known of Edmund's death and had deliberately kept that fact from her.
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Mitch did not know where she was either and seemed to think that she had been deliberately keeping out of his way.
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She had never felt that Alice had deliberately kept them apart, fearing that her brother would be bored by her friend.
leave
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Many issues, however, were not well defined in the Protocol, or were deliberately left ambiguous.
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I found the protozoan attracted in large numbers to slate panels we deliberately left at vents for one year and then recovered.
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But they have deliberately left the story line open ... just in case.
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The Forestry Commission has deliberately left areas of older woodland for their wildlife value, so concentrate your observations here.
make
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We are ashamed to deliberately make a system so inconvenient that people will stop using it.
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A genius deliberately made , not born.
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The set, therefore, can be manipulated and made deliberately suggestive of the appropriateness of religious labelling.
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Nor do I believe in deliberately making people poor: that is why I oppose sanctions.
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To inflate their confidence, I was deliberately making them see a weak front.
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No doubt Thomas was deliberately making her look foolish in public in order to hide his real feelings.
mislead
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She had just assumed ... She had assumed rather a lot, it seemed - or perhaps Caro had deliberately misled her?
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That statement was silent on the question of whether Gingrich deliberately misled the committee or skirted tax law.
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The most generous excuse one can make is that Brooke was deliberately misled by his advisers.
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The lawsuit would likely allege that Symington got the loan because he deliberately misled the pension funds about his financial condition.
seek
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Anti-alcohol campaigners deliberately seek to confuse alcohol with narcotic drugs.
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He did not say that these artists deliberately sought to imitate the photographs, or that their works are exactly like them.
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Some deliberately seek high concentrations of brine and others regularly withstand being frozen solid.
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Newly formed governments seek deliberately to reverse their predecessors' communications policies.
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If the club golfer, having read that late hitting is desirable, deliberately seeks an action he is in trouble.
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Didn't alter the fact that he'd deliberately sought her out because of her parents.
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Stevenson was deliberately seeking a plot that would allow him to explore an aspect of human psychology.
set
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But it was the knowledge that he'd deliberately set out to make a fool of her that wounded her the most.
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There were no initial indications that the fire was set deliberately , Gaines said.
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These are corporations deliberately set up, taken over, or controlled for the explicit and sole purpose of executing criminal activity.
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But under cross-examination, he was accused of deliberately setting out to besmirch her character.
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It was deliberately set up when the University received its Charter in 1909.
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Sometimes in drama a teacher deliberately sets up a structure that appears to lack any obvious game element.
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He said the explosion appeared not to have been deliberately set off because of the timing.
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Social groups are often deliberately set up for a purpose.
start
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This deliberately starts with some very simple models, which are then elaborated step-by-step.
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Police confirmed that it was started deliberately .
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A further £73,000 went on repairing other damage from fires, almost all of which were started deliberately .
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Read in studio Investigators say a fire in which a man died could have been started deliberately .
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Meanwhile the police are continuing their investigation into the cause of the fire, which it's thought was started deliberately .
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There are no obvious signs that the fire was started deliberately .
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The fire, which caused damage valued at about £2,500, had been started deliberately but the motive was still not clear.
try
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He said he was not suggesting that Mrs Swami had tried deliberately to mislead the jury about the number of beatings.
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Many hospitals deliberately tried to avoid challenging or openly discouraging the parents' hopes and expectations for a perfect or near-perfect recovery.
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Experts make mistakes, they work to their own agendas, and sometimes they deliberately try to mislead.
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There is no reason, however, to suppose that Isabella had deliberately tried to build up a party amongst the bishops.
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Was he deliberately trying to make her feel even more humiliated?
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Richard admitted that he had listened to the advice of people who were deliberately trying to sow dissension between them.
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Some people deliberately try to programme their children.
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Few organizations however formally acknowledge it, or deliberately try to develop the coaching role.
use
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He deliberately used both brush and pen as boldly as possible to soften the mechanical nature of the process.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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I think he was deliberately ignoring me.
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Police believe the fire was started deliberately .
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Rogers was dismissed from the army for deliberately disobeying an order.
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She left the letter there deliberately so that you'd see it.
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Somebody deliberately released the brakes and headed the truck downhill.
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There were no signs that the fire had been set deliberately .
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Tom paused deliberately before continuing.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Did they - whoever they were - deliberately try to kill him?
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He deliberately paused outside the door, forcing them to wait in frustration before they dared erupt into excited comment.
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In that sense, it is deliberately idiosyncratic.
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Story then becomes revised into recitation or into a deliberately implausible sequence against which the narrative voice can play.
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Teachers can not be dismissed for insubordination unless they willfully and deliberately defy school authorities or violate reasonable school rules.
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The church had, of course, been put there deliberately both to use and to nullify the site of the previous religion.
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Very deliberately , Ricci slowly rotated it into the best position for nut-cracking.