pointedly

IPA: pˈɔɪntɪdɫi

adverb

  • explicitly; with emphasis; so as to make a point, especially with criticism
  • (obsolete) wittily or pithily
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Examples of "pointedly" in Sentences

  • Note that the definition pointedly includes nonviolent actions name calling against a child.
  • Instead, you’ve invested an incredible amount of time and effort in pointedly avoiding making an argument that could be responded to.
  • After that Colin pointedly abstained from allusion to the Ideal Wife and to Joan Gildea's Typewriting-Correspondent, as he had called her.
  • Constantin, I have said, in pointedly unsubtle language, that Clarence Thomas was unqualified to succeed Thurgood Marshall and that, when his confirmation was at risk, he played the race card in a particularly ugly manner.
  • John Herbison: Constantin, I have said, in pointedly unsubtle language, that Clarence Thomas was unqualified to succeed Thurgood Marshall and that, when his confirmation was at risk, he played the race card in a particularly ugly manner.

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