pointedly

Example Sentences

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"Yes there is an audience," he says pointedly.

From BBC

“Excuse me,” Alexander said pointedly as people kept bumping into them and pushing past, often while making rude remarks.

From Literature

Oh, and Lyons pointedly promised the Street that Fiserv was now “on our way back to the highest standards.”

From MarketWatch

The Gamble House has opened its servants quarters to tours and added an art installation that pointedly examines the lives of domestic workers; Gustavo Dudamel is back at the Hollywood Bowl.

From Los Angeles Times

In one of the film’s most charged moments, Peck turns Orwell’s warning about political language into a montage of modern euphemisms: “peacekeeping operations,” “collateral damage,” “illegals” — and then, pointedly, “antisemitism 2024.”

From Los Angeles Times