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The phrase "purposefully violent" is correct and usable in written English
It is typically used to describe someone or something that intentionally, deliberately, or with a specific goal in mind, engages in violent behavior or actions. Example: The movie was filled with purposefully violent scenes in order to shock and provoke the audience.
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The much smaller number of purposefully violent hooligans are still highly dangerous.
"Babies piled in dumpsters," for example, is an inaccurate depiction that is purposefully violent in order to frame a political disagreement.
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Now, for readers more pop savvy than immersed in hip hop terminology, a cypher is like a rap battle: it's purposefully aggressive, and often includes violent content.
The young political prisoners, they said, had been purposefully bunked with adults who were there for violent or drug-related crimes.
ABC executives initially protested the writers' decision to have Mary Alice purposefully kill Dierdre, prompting the writers to make Dierdre violent in order to justify Mary Alice's actions.
And when exactly one year ago protesters gathered on the eve of his third inauguration, their peaceful march ended in violent clashes that, opposition activists now believe, were purposefully started by the police.
If you purposefully cultivate the idea that a massively diverse group of people are violent, undeserving and "incompatible" with society, you dehumanise them.
"We purposefully chose a very tranquil movie to contrast against the very stimulating effect of playing a violent video game in the hope of producing the greatest effect on sleep".
There are several causes of violent death, including suicide, traffic accidents and homicide, which is defined as "unlawful death purposefully inflicted by a person on a person" [ 1, 3].
As the Washington Post noted, there is no evidence to support the claim that immigrants commit violent crimes at rates higher than native-born citizens — or, for that matter, that the Mexican government is purposefully sending over people that do.
It's purposefully toxic.
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