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on purpose in English:

1. deliberately 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.

2. intentionally intentionally


You are saying you intentionally hide your good looks?
You did this intentionally!
He walked the batter intentionally.
He broke the window intentionally.
No, I intentionally left things as they were until the very end.
The park's roads are comparatively few and they are kept intentionally narrow.
Christopher Columbus once accidentally ate a sea urchin. Then, he did it a second time... intentionally.
He intentionally stepped on my foot on the train.
Baffled by Sherlock Holmes' cryptic remarks, Watson wondered whether Holmes was intentionally concealing his thoughts about the crime.
Mr T (19 years old) avoided conviction for murder, but was found guilty of grievous bodily harm for having intentionally caused wounds.