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pointedly

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adv
  1. 1

    Explicitly; with emphasis; so as to make a point, especially with criticism.

    • The film echoes a central question from all the Wick films, though: is he a natural-born murderer? Or a good man underneath it all? "This is who you are," the Marquis tells him. "A killer." The question is pointedly unresolved here.
  2. 2

    Wittily or pithily.obsolete

  3. 3

    Markedly, intentionally conspicuously.

    • I was pointedly ignored.

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