purposefully

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  1. With full purpose or design; of set purpose. You may indeed perhaps think … that it is much more pardonable to slay needlessly than purposefully. Ruskin.

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  • She is always going somewhere purposefully, always smiling, always bright and level-eyed. —  The Tiger In The Smoke - Allingham, Margery - Albert Campion 15
  • He waked then and embraced me purposefully, and I shifted over, getting rid of other sensor connections, because I was willing. —  Port Eternity
  • Then it began advancing slowly and purposefully -- and a moment later it did something that no animal anywhere in the world has ever done: it produced a weapon. —  F ;SF - vol 090 issue 03 - March 1996
  • He always walked purposefully, as though he knew exactly where he was going, but more often than not he would turn down this street rather than that, just for a change of scene, because he enjoyed savoring new sights and sounds. —  Maigret in Vichy - Georges Simenon - 95
  • They got out of their car slowly and purposefully, an air of menace hovering about them. —  AHMM,December2007
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