Intentionally

Examples

• Had Edward been intentionally deceiving her? Jane Austen. Sense and Sensibility.
• We must not be so ready to fancy ourselves intentionally injured. Jane Austen. Pride and Prejudice.
• But now, let us reason with the unjust, who is not intentionally in error. Plato. The Republic.
• Truthfulness: they will never intentionally receive into their mind falsehood, which is their detestation, and they will love the truth. Plato. The Republic.
• He was never on the lookout to detect a slight, but saw one as soon as anybody when intentionally given. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• But at least, Mama, you cannot deny the absurdity of the accusation, though you may not think it intentionally ill-natured. Jane Austen. Sense and Sensibility.
• All who know us are aware that although we are at times justly severe upon tigers and martyrs, we never intentionally offend gladiators. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• You have frightened her; but it was not, I am sure, intentionally. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
• Come, now, and let us gently reason with the unjust, who is not intentionally in error. Plato. The Republic.
• And I doubted that foreign stranger, who had got the start of us, and whom I suspected of intentionally following him out. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• Whether intentionally or accidentally, I don't know. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• He seemed to annoy Brangwen intentionally. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• My manners must have been in fault, but not intentionally, I assure you. Jane Austen. Pride and Prejudice.

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