"accidentally on purpose" meaning in English

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          "ref": "1860, Cornwall Simeon, Stray Notes on Fishing and Natural History, page 159",
          "text": "However, having accidentally-on-purpose got hold of a piece of the fish, down it went; and, apparently thinking that under the circumstances he might do worse, he set to work with no ill-will or appetite, and soon got through a good part of a haddock.",
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          "text": "When a buffalo charges at her husband, Margot, directly in back of him and standing up in Wilson's open car, fires toward the buffalo and kills Francis — whether accidentally, on purpose, or accidentally on purpose, H. leaves ambiguous."
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          "text": "“Or maybe,” Jack added, “her mother accidentally on purpose lost it.”",
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        "Deliberately, though apparently accidentally."
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          "sense": "deliberately but seemingly accidentally",
          "word": "per ongeluk expres"
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          "lang": "Finnish",
          "sense": "deliberately but seemingly accidentally",
          "word": "näennäisesti vahingossa"
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          "roman": "kataláthos exepítides",
          "sense": "deliberately but seemingly accidentally",
          "word": "καταλάθος εξεπίτηδες"
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          "roman": "gūzen o yosōtte",
          "sense": "deliberately but seemingly accidentally",
          "word": "偶然を装って"
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          "lang": "Portuguese",
          "sense": "deliberately but seemingly accidentally",
          "word": "sem querer querendo"
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          "roman": "kak by slučájno",
          "sense": "deliberately but seemingly accidentally",
          "word": "как бы случа́йно"
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          "english": "on purpose; for fun",
          "lang": "Russian",
          "roman": "naróčno",
          "sense": "deliberately but seemingly accidentally",
          "word": "наро́чно"
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          "code": "es",
          "lang": "Spanish",
          "sense": "deliberately but seemingly accidentally",
          "word": "sin querer queriendo"
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      "sense": "deliberately but seemingly accidentally",
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      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "deliberately but seemingly accidentally",
      "word": "näennäisesti vahingossa"
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      "lang": "Greek",
      "roman": "kataláthos exepítides",
      "sense": "deliberately but seemingly accidentally",
      "word": "καταλάθος εξεπίτηδες"
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      "roman": "gūzen o yosōtte",
      "sense": "deliberately but seemingly accidentally",
      "word": "偶然を装って"
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      "sense": "deliberately but seemingly accidentally",
      "word": "sem querer querendo"
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      "roman": "kak by slučájno",
      "sense": "deliberately but seemingly accidentally",
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      "english": "on purpose; for fun",
      "lang": "Russian",
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      "sense": "deliberately but seemingly accidentally",
      "word": "наро́чно"
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      "sense": "deliberately but seemingly accidentally",
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