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

This advisedly clunky emphasis on fibs and their detection is something of a Johnson trademark.

From Washington Post • Feb. 2, 2023

The biggest insult you could deliver to an abstract painter was that his art — I use the pronoun advisedly — was “decorative.”

From New York Times • Nov. 26, 2021

“So it was established by Mr. Ford”—the taller one again took over—“that no man is to receive the money who cannot use it advisedly and conservatively.”

From "Middlesex: A Novel" by Jeffrey Eugenides