Timeline for Is there a word/adverb that describes that "something was done which shouldn't have been done"?
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| Nov 14, 2017 at 0:44 | comment | added | Lawrence | +10 to @Barmar if I could. It doesn't satisfy your request for a word but it solves your problem. | |
| Nov 14, 2017 at 0:32 | answer | added | jxh | timeline score: 1 | |
| Nov 13, 2017 at 15:54 | comment | added | Barmar | I'm not sure there's a word for this that doesn't include some suggestion of whether or not it was deliberate. I think we would just leave out the adverb there, as the fact that it's contrary to orders is stated in the clause that begins with "despite". | |
| Nov 13, 2017 at 15:49 | comment | added | Petrus K. | Sorry for expressing myself so vaguely, it's hard for me to exactly describe what I'm looking for, probably because English isn't my native language and my vocabulary is not as rich as it once was. | |
| Nov 13, 2017 at 15:47 | comment | added | Petrus K. | @Barmar inadvertently or accidentally might work in this case. What I'm trying to get at here is to describe something that someone did even though "we" told him/her not to do it. There is no presumption regarding whether this was done deliberately or wilfully, it should only carry the notion that something wrong was done (against orders/directives). | |
| Nov 10, 2017 at 19:47 | comment | added | Barmar | If it wasn't intentional, you could say inadvertently. | |
| Nov 10, 2017 at 19:03 | comment | added | jxh | We idiomatically use on purpose in situations that someone willfully committed a wrong, as opposed to an accidental occurrence. So, you may be wanting willfully, purposely, deliberately, or something of that ilk. | |
| Nov 10, 2017 at 18:53 | comment | added | Robbie Goodwin | Petrus, that looks more a Question for your thesaurus, dictionary or search engine. Start with synonyms for erroneous or fallacious. An easy fit for your soldier firing against orders would be wrongly, covering both the accidental or mistaken ideas in erroneously/fallaciously and the possibility of criminal or malicious intent. Speaking of … the action being performed by the subject… gets complex enough to obscure the issue, as does emphasising the action being against explicit advise, or prohibited. | |
| Nov 10, 2017 at 18:52 | comment | added | Andrew Leach♦ | Because it's an adverb, it could be anything. The soldier wrongly fired a shot, or wildly, wantonly, pig-headedly... You say you're looking for something else, but what? Please see the checklist in the tag info for help with this sort of question. | |
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| Nov 10, 2017 at 15:12 | history | asked | Petrus K. | CC BY-SA 3.0 |