advisedly
Example Sentences
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This is a country that purports to worship, and I use that term advisedly, the rule of law.
From Slate ● Feb. 3, 2026
She also said: "Clearly the events of the last few weeks have been difficult - and I use this word advisedly and deliberately - in some respects very traumatic."
From BBC ● Apr. 25, 2023
The result was a very powerful mounting, and I use the word advisedly: It sometimes seemed like an exhibit.
From New York Times ● Oct. 9, 2022
“I’ve been running — if I can use that term advisedly — very large organizations for a long time,” he told The Washington Post in a farewell interview in 1982, before joining Airbus.
From Washington Post ● Oct. 19, 2020
His favorite artists were Rembrandt, Sargent, and ‘Titan,” but he added, advisedly, that he himself didn’t care to draw along those lines.
From "Nine Stories" by J. D. Salinger
