"pointedly" meaning in English

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  "etymology_text": "pointed + -ly",
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      "form": "more pointedly",
      "tags": [
        "comparative"
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    },
    {
      "form": "most pointedly",
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        "superlative"
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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "adv",
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        {
          "ref": "2023 March 14, Caryn James, “John Wick: Chapter 4: 'Soars above most action films'”, in BBC",
          "text": "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.",
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        "explicitly; with emphasis; so as to make a point, especially with criticism"
      ],
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          "explicitly"
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          "emphasis",
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          "make a point",
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          "criticism",
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      "glosses": [
        "wittily or pithily"
      ],
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          "wittily",
          "wittily"
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          "pithily",
          "pithily"
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        "(obsolete) wittily or pithily"
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  "word": "pointedly"
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  "etymology_text": "pointed + -ly",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "more pointedly",
      "tags": [
        "comparative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "most pointedly",
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        "superlative"
      ]
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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "adv",
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          "ref": "2023 March 14, Caryn James, “John Wick: Chapter 4: 'Soars above most action films'”, in BBC",
          "text": "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.",
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        "explicitly; with emphasis; so as to make a point, especially with criticism"
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          "explicitly"
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          "emphasis",
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          "make a point"
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          "criticism",
          "criticism"
        ]
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        "(obsolete) wittily or pithily"
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  "word": "pointedly"
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