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Pointedly

Pointedly | Pointed

Pointedly meaning

Explicitly; with emphasis; so as to make a point, especially with criticism. | Wittily or pithily.

Example sentences (20)

But a fun result is that the show is arriving on the same day that Cattrall’s old “Sex and the City” castmates are back with a new season of “And Just Like That …,” which Cattrall pointedly declined to join.

But in a section entitled “open-ended feedback” it quotes several participants pointedly defending the former president.

But Oppenheimer pointedly used religious language when talking about the project, as if to underscore the weight of its significance.

Florida governor Ron DeSantis has pointedly refused to join his Republican rival Vivek Ramaswamy in boycotting next year's presidential election in Colorado.

He then pointedly questioned the role of the four MPs from the state, suggesting that they failed to voice the concerns of the people.

More pointedly, it’s important not to conflate convenience with accessibility.

Plus, pointedly, there is no clarity on the role of Vadra.

The mayor then pointedly stood by Waller amid reports from WBEZ and South Side Weekly about two separate allegations of domestic violence in the police leader’s past.

This is the kind of pointedly bloviating language one might encounter in a scare film or a "social problems" cautionary drama about juvenile delinquents in the 1950s.

Archer pointedly declares his crew has only postponed an invasion until the 24th century.

A top aide to the mayor pointedly laid out the stakes and the politicians’ duty.

At the extreme end, critics of the industry pointedly said they had no pity for Thompson.

Coleman used her popularity to encourage other Black Americans to fly and pointedly refused to perform at locations that didn’t allow entry to Black audiences.

Earlier, the UAE’s state-run WAM news agency acknowledged Kogan’s disappearance but pointedly did not acknowledge he held Israeli citizenship, referring to him only as being Moldovan.

He adds pointedly: "I don't want to be the sympathy vote.

He also pointedly chose to deliver his remarks in the 10 Downing Street rose garden, where during the pandemic, staffers for then-prime minister Boris Johnson held one of their gatherings that flew in the face of lockdown rules.

Institute senior fellow Ilya Shapiro has a lengthy history of smearing distinguished jurists of color—most pointedly Sonia Sotomayor and Ketanji Brown Jackson—as “lesser” judicial appointees and as examples of “identity politics” over merit.

I wasn’t outraged — the humor, like the characters, is too pointedly juvenile to take that seriously.

Mr Hurley pointedly said the riots in Southport occurred because of the 'propaganda and lies' spread on social media about the identity of the attacker.

Oh and by the way, this model has a headphone jack, something pointedly missing from the older designs.