Synonym: consider, easy, leisurely, meditate, ponder, reflect, slow, study, think over, unhurried. Antonym: hasty. Similar words: deliberately, liberate, liberal, berate, delicate, operate, ameliorate, generate. Meaning: [dɪ'lɪbərət] v. 1. think about carefully; weigh 2. discuss the pros and cons of an issue. adj. 1. by conscious design or purpose 2. with care and dignity 3. produced or marked by conscious design or premeditation 4. marked by careful consideration or reflection 5. carefully thought out in advance.
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121) Judge Mallet wisely decided to postpone his ruling until September 13 in order to give himself time to deliberate on the matter.
122) He knew that Sharpe's insults were more than mere anger, but a deliberate provocation to a duel.
123) The motion to continue proceedings on the bill was passed by 319 votes to 316 with seven deliberate Conservative abstentions.
124) She used her childhood name and indulged herself in deliberate misspellings.
125) Rape as an act of war-a conscious, deliberate act of war.
126) Here again he is adopting a course of confrontation, a course of deliberate challenge to established authority.
127) The child was very deliberate in her approach to relationships.
128) Accidental failure of electricity or gas supply not caused by the deliberate act of the supply authority.
129) The State Department has cited these findings as evidence of deliberate attack.
130) Deliberate assistance to economic growth went hand in hand with administrative reform aimed at channelling its profits firmly into princely treasuries.
131) But law enforcement officers are deliberate -- and frequent -- targets.
132) He saw it as a deliberate insult to the Church(Sentence dictionary), a kind of Satanic Cross on the hill.
133) It is not a deliberate, self-conscious activity, but a natural process that takes place unconsciously.
134) His Cabinet's threat to resign was a deliberate move to bring matters to a head.
135) Worse was to come when no less a person than Khomeini called for their execution should the deed prove to be deliberate.
136) His deliberate act was in fact obstructing the police who were making a lawful arrest, and that was sufficient mens rea.
137) I believe this was a deliberate attempt to mislead the court.
138) There have also been cases of deliberate neglect of property in order to force tenants out of the building.
139) Which of these are deliberate displays is sometimes debatable, but horses certainly act on them.
140) The least they did was to adopt a laissez-faire attitude or one of deliberate non-interference so that the women felt free of pressure.
141) Are the workers' losses of income and economic security natural or unnatural, planned or unplanned, deliberate or unavoidable?
142) The second has caused much confusion, some of it deliberate, which has plainly rubbed off on Mr Dalyell.
143) Planned towns were deliberate attempts to exploit the economic possibilities of a site; and like any other investment could go wrong.
144) Hughes kept moving at a deliberate pace, turning right and left to give his benediction.
145) It is a deliberate artifact of culture, and is socially constructed in myriad ways.
146) We are virtually certain that this incident was a deliberate provocation.
147) The role of general practitioners in the assessment of deliberate self-poisoning has so far received very little attention.
148) Although inaccurate statements sometimes are found, Love said no one has yet been convicted of deliberate falsification.
149) Some developing countries have a deliberate policy to keep their poor people uneducated.
150) I suspect that the unattended team is deliberate: a calculated suppression of Myrtilos.
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