deliberate

Done on purpose; intentional.

a deliberate attempt to cover up his crime

The massacre of up to 8,000 Bosnian Muslims at Srebrenica in 1995 was an act of genocide in a deliberate attempt by the Bosnian Serb leadership to exterminate part of the Muslim community, appeal judges ruled in a crucial case at the international war crimes tribunal in The Hague yesterday.

Formed with deliberation; carefully considered; not sudden or rash.

a deliberate opinion; a deliberate measure or result

settled visage and deliberate word

Of a person, weighing facts and arguments with a view to a choice or decision; carefully considering the probable consequences of a step; slow in determining.

The jury took eight hours to come to its deliberate verdict.

Not hasty or sudden; slow.

His enunciation was so deliberate.

To consider carefully; to weigh well in the mind.

It is now time for the jury to deliberate the guilt of the defendant.

To consider the reasons for and against anything; to reflect.