From Merriam Webster Online
Other Words from purposive
purposively
adverb
purposiveness
nounI believe the idiot who trolled that claim was a college grad, too. Apparently they went from 3rd grade to college and missed the lessons in how to look words up in a dictionary in 4th. Though I'm prepared to believe their "progressive school" didn't teach dictionary skills as being, you know, old hat.
TV has made us a nation of slow children. Or maybe it's fall out from Strunk-White banning adverbs. Stupid book makes credentialed people stupid.
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