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pointedly あからさまに、はっきりと、辛らつに、狙いを定めて、的を射て→「狙いをはっきりさせる」という意味の動詞 point から派生。非難や怒りといったニュアンスがある

He pointedly disagreed with the constitutional philosophy often called "originalism," which is the thesis that judges ought to interpret the abstract moral clauses of the Constitution by asking how the framers of each clause would have expected that clause to be applied.