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

So it was that my dining area became the arena for a wine glass smackdown, a term that I use advisedly given the lightness and seeming fragility of these five glasses.

From New York Times • Jan. 27, 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

The figure is advisedly chosen, for if the canneries dipped their mouths into the bay the canned sardines which emerge from the other end would be metaphorically, at least, even more horrifying.

From "Cannery Row" by John Steinbeck