designedly

Example Sentences

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“If it is designedly done, they cannot be justified; but I have no idea of there being so much design in the world as some persons imagine.”

From Literature

Charles Darwin said he could not “persuade myself that a beneficent and omnipotent God would have designedly created” such gruesome killers, but without them farmers would spray tons more pesticide, and who wants that?

From Washington Post

In the words of English philosopher Sir Francis Bacon: "Things alter for the worse spontaneously if they be not altered for the better designedly."

From US News

He continues, Or I guess it is the handkerchief of the Lord, A scented gift and remembrancer designedly dropped, Like grass is a metaphor for God’s greatness or something.

From Literature

Some of the least annoying beeps are designedly so.

From BBC