わざと
on purpose
It looked deliberate, and everybody in the ground thought so at the same moment. A waza わざ out of 技, brought out on purpose. Not a slip: わざと.
わざわざ is going out of your way to do something helpful. わざと is doing it on purpose, and often something you should not.
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