Usually means: With deliberate emphasis or intention.
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  1. pointedly: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. pointedly: Merriam-Webster
  3. pointedly: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. pointedly: Collins English Dictionary
  5. pointedly: Vocabulary.com
  6. Pointedly, pointedly: Wordnik
  7. pointedly: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. pointedly: Wiktionary
  9. pointedly: Dictionary.com
  10. pointedly: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  11. pointedly: Rhymezone
  12. pointedly: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  13. pointedly: FreeDictionary.org
  14. pointedly: Mnemonic Dictionary
  15. pointedly: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. pointedly: Legal dictionary

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  1. pointedly: Encyclopedia

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Definitions from Wiktionary (pointedly)

▸ adverb:  explicitly; with emphasis; so as to make a point, especially with criticism
▸ adverb:  (obsolete) wittily or pithily

Similar:
pointingly, emphatically, markedly, notably, exactly, pronouncedly, expressedly, glaringly, specifically, expressly, more...

Opposite:
vaguely, broadly, generally

Types:
directly, bluntly, clearly, explicitly, frankly, candidly, outspokenly, plainly, more...

Phrases:
look at pointedly, to say pointedly, pointedly ignores, say pointedly, as is pointedly, more...

Colors:
    crimson,     scarlet,     vermilion,     ruby,     garnet, more...

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Similar:
pointingly, emphatically, markedly, notably, exactly, pronouncedly, expressedly, glaringly, specifically, expressly, more...

Opposite:
vaguely, broadly, generally

Types:
directly, bluntly, clearly, explicitly, frankly, candidly, outspokenly, plainly, more...

Phrases:
look at pointedly, to say pointedly, pointedly ignores, say pointedly, as is pointedly, more...

Colors:
    crimson,     scarlet,     vermilion,     ruby,     garnet, more...



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