Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • adverb With careful consideration; deliberately.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • With advice or deliberation; heedfully; purposely; by design: as, I speak advisedly; an enterprise advisedly undertaken.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adverb obsolete Circumspectly; deliberately; leisurely.
  • adverb With deliberate purpose; purposely; by design.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • adverb With intentionality; deliberately.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • adverb with intention; in an intentional manner

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Examples

  • Which is to say, the torch relay was conceived for the 1936 Games, and enthusiastically adopted by the PR Nazis for once I use the term advisedly of the Third Reich.

    The London 2012 Olympic torch relay is following a path that inflames | Marina Hyde 2011

  • But in this egalitarian—and I use the term advisedly—day and age, nobility tends to play down its pedigree, the major exception being British lords who weren't born to greatness but were knighted after they made a killing in convenience stores or sandwich shops, or Eastern Europeans hawking products such as high-end cold creams.

    The Prince's Pillows Ralph Gardner Jr. 2011

  • To be frank, the finished toaster—and I use the term advisedly—isn't the most attractive device.

    Perfecting The Toaster Ralph Gardner Jr. 2011

  • By that logic and I use the term advisedly, being straight is also a choice.

    WHAT A GAY DAY 2009

  • The amazing thing is that there are 70 odd I use the term advisedly Scots who are still stupid enough to think that Labour are anything other than totally corrupt.

    Scottish mini-poll Jeff 2009

  • Here at NWU, we are required to give our freshmen and I use the term advisedly students some sort of grade report during about the 8th week of the semester.

    Archive 2007-05-01 Bardiac 2007

  • And I use the term advisedly, because all of them assured us that the Pioneers we featured we charming, elegant and above all - true ladies.

    YesButNoButYes: YBNBY Hall of Fame: Pioneers of Striptease 2007

  • Use the term advisedly, as some find it an offensive allusion to the disabled.

    Essential Guide to Business Style and Usage PAUL R. MARTIN 2002

  • Use the term advisedly, as some find it an offensive allusion to the disabled.

    Essential Guide to Business Style and Usage PAUL R. MARTIN 2002

  • Then the band-he used the term advisedly'moseyed out on stage.

    With Friends Like These... Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- 1977

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