Synonyms for expressly
ɪkˈsprɛs liex·press·ly

Princeton's WordNet

1. expresslyadverb

   with specific intentions; for the express purpose

   "she needs the money expressly for her patients"

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1. List of paraphrases for "expressly":

   explicitly, specifically, emphatically, clearly, openly, frankly, expresses, express

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1. Richard Peck:

   Would we be here in the absence of U.S. sanctions law, and ... our response is no, in a typical case, double criminality is not contentious. This case, however, is founded on an allegation of breach of U.S. sanctions, sanctions which Canada has expressly repudiated.

2. Bavarian Interior Minister Joachim Herrmann:

   A provisional translation by an interpreter shows that he expressly announces, in the name of Allah, and testifying his allegiance to Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, a famous Islamist leader, an act of revenge against the Germans because they're getting in the way of Islam.

3. Judge Lynn R. Kotler:

   Yeshiva's organizing documents do not expressly indicate that Yeshiva has a religious purpose.

4. John Sopko:

   Although not all such attacks are expressly prohibited by the text, U.S. officials had said they expected the level of violence to remain low after the agreement came into effect.

5. Jonathan Swift:

   What they do in heaven we are ignorant of; what they do not do we are told expressly.