"Deliberately" • Chinese-English Dictionary
| 故意 | gù yì | deliberately / on purpose |   |
| 成心 | chéng xīn | intentionally / deliberately / on purpose | |
| 刻意 | kè yì | intentionally / deliberately / purposely / painstakingly / meticulously | |
| 有心 | yǒu xīn | to have a mind to / to intend to / deliberately / considerate | |
| 存心 | cún xīn | deliberately | |
| 专意 | zhuān yì | deliberately / on purpose | |
| 刁难 | diāo nàn | to be hard on sb / to deliberately make things difficult / Taiwan pr. [diao1nan2] | |
| 无理取闹 | wú lǐ qǔ nào | to make trouble without reason (idiom) / to be deliberately provocative | |
| 拿捏 | ná niē | (lit. and fig.) to grasp / to control / (dialect) affecting shyness / coy / (dialect) to deliberately create difficulties / to threaten | |
| 故弄玄虚 | gù nòng xuán xū | deliberately mystifying / to make sth unnecessarily complicated | |
| 怪杰 | guài jié | monstre sacré / (i.e. artist famous for being deliberately preposterous) | |
| 付之一炬 | fù zhī yī jù | to put to the torch (idiom) / to commit to the flames / to burn sth down deliberately | |
| 听而不闻 | tīng ér bù wén | to hear but not react (idiom) / to turn a deaf ear / to ignore deliberately | |
| 违拗 | wéi ào | to disobey / to defy / to deliberately go against (a rule, a convention, sb's wishes etc) | |
| 横生枝节 | héng shēng zhī jié | to deliberately complicate an issue (idiom) | |
| 颠倒黑白 | diān dǎo hēi bái | lit. to invert black and white (idiom) / to distort the truth deliberately / to misrepresent the facts / to invert right and wrong | |
| 碰磁儿 | pèng cí r | a currently widespread fraud in PRC involving deliberately crashing cars then demanding compensation | |
| 讨俏 | tǎo qiào | deliberately provocative / saucy | |
| 刻意为之 | kè yì wéi zhī | to make a conscious effort / to do something deliberately | |
| 无理取闹 | wú lǐ - qǔ nào | (idiom) to make trouble without reason / to be deliberately provocative | |
| 颠倒是非 | diān dǎo - shì fēi | (idiom) to distort right and wrong / to deliberately mislead | |
