Dutch English Dictionary

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opzettelijk in English:

1. on purpose


playYou know I would never hurt you on purpose
Did y'all smack me into that mountain on purpose?
You make it sound as if I did it on purpose!
I edition purpose
It hurts more if you believe somebody is doing it to you on purpose
I bet you he left his report card here on purpose so we would compliment him on his grades. I don't understand—why would you run into the bumper of another car on purpose?
I didn't do it on purpose - it was an accident.
I spilled my drink on purpose -- I needed an excuse to leave the room.
I'm sorry. I didn't hurt you on purpose.
The youth explained that it was an accident; he hadn't broken the window on purpose.
Do you think that loopholes are created on purpose?
You've done that on purpose! You spoilt brat!
I am sure you did it on purpose. You just wanted to annoy me.
That wasn"t an accident!!! You did it on purpose.
I think you did this on purpose.

English word "opzettelijk"(on purpose) occurs in sets:

28. Behaviour (5)

2. deliberate


deliberate act
She looked at me in a deliberate way and left the meeting room.
The Commission should put an end to the systematic and deliberate leaking to the press.
a deliberate attempt to provoke conflict
There's nothing to deliberate about, we have to accept their offer.
I’m sure the omission of my name was deliberate.
We named this universal approach “deliberate practice.”
The police claims that it was a deliberate murder.
Introverts think before they speak, have a more deliberate approach to risk.
Is your decision deliberate? You can still change your mind.
Learners are energized by the steady and deliberate journey from ignorance to competence.
The definition of homicide is the deliberate and illegal murder of another person
The definition of deliberate is doing something on purpose and with careful thought.
To be considered bullying, the behaviour has to be intentional, which means it has to be planned or deliberate.
Emergency situations such as this call for immediate action and leave no room to deliberate over options.

3. intentional


intentional planned, deliberate
Something that is intentional on the part of the perpetrator; it has to involve some kind of power imbalance, so it's not an argument between equals, and it's something that is repetitive.

4. deliberately


I'm sure he says these things deliberately to annoy me.
He deliberately ignores me.
You never liked my flower garden and I think you deliberately ran over it with the lawnmower!
Then, deliberately, it stepped to the door of the middle Zeta shuttle and slipped inside.
At the beginning of his presentation, the manager deliberately shocked the audience.
I say quite deliberately that the Christian religion, as organized in its churches, has been and still is the principal enemy of moral progress in the world.
The most perfidious way of harming a cause consists of defending it deliberately with faulty arguments.
It seems as if dishonorable, labyrinthine, deliberately confusing economic policies have earned more support from the president than every physical and mental disability combined.
I'm sure you broke it deliberately! You've always hated that vase!
You deliberately kept the information to yourself so that the report would be incomplete!
intentionally: I'm ​sure he says these things deliberately to ​annoy me. › ​slowly and ​carefully: Calmly and deliberately, she ​cut up his ​suits one by one.
Murder is the crime of killing a person deliberately.
I didn’t like the photo on my passport so I deliberately ‘lost’ it and got a new one.
Manufacturers are making their products deliberately difficult to repair.
The talented young chess player is very bold. He deliberately lays himself open to attack, makes himself vulnerable and then checkmates his opponent when least expected.