Tikibu: pronunciation dictionary with use examples

Word: pointedly
IPA transcription: [p'ɔɪntɪdl,i]
Pronunciations of pointedly
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r meaning of the word
  • Synonyms: pointedly
    Meaning: in such a manner as to make something clearly evident; "he pointedly ignored the question"
Usage examples
  • He laments thus pointedly:
  • "Never mind that man," she said pointedly.
  • "I think a few small doses of Eastern manners would improve you very much," she said, pointedly.
  • Then it occurred to him that there might have been something misleading in his so pointedly seeking her, and he felt a momentary constraint.
  • "Yes," said the king, replying pointedly to the superintendent of finances, "yes, at the point of death, monsieur le cardinal makes me a donation of all his wealth."
  • But the nature of an image requires likeness in species; thus the image of the king exists in his son: or, at least, in some specific accident, and chiefly in the shape; thus, we speak of a man's image in copper. Whence Hilary says pointedly that "an image is of the same species."
0. Word pronunciation is derived from article recording Roe v. Wade, License CC BY-SA 4.0