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accidentally on purpose informal Apparently by accident but in fact intentionally: it was not so easy for him to contrive to meet her accidentally on purpose...- Seriously, my last passport picture was so ugly, I used to contemplate losing the passport accidentally on purpose, to get out of ten years of having to show that monstrosity to immigration officers around the world.
- Somehow, possibly accidentally on purpose, this festival seems to have managed to almost totally exclude the student body.
- Was that an accident, or accidentally on purpose?
See parent entry: purpose |