designedly

How To Use designedly In A Sentence

• It was not a designedly showcase set, but it allowed these outstanding New York City Ballet dancers to show the strength, agility, perfect technique and intelligent artistry which makes them one of the finest companies in the world.
• If a man notoriously and designedly insults and affronts you, knock him down; but if he only injures you, your best revenge is to be extremely civil to him in your outward behavior, though at the same time you counterwork him, and return him the compliment, perhaps with interest. Letters to his son on The Art of Becoming a Man of the World and a Gentleman
• A little error of the eye, a misguidance of the hand, a slip of the foot, a starting of an horse, a sudden mist, or a great shower, or a word undesignedly cast forth in an army, has turned the stream of victory from one side to another, and thereby disposed of the fortunes of empires and whole nations. Sermons Preached Upon Several Occasions. Vol. II.
• So that the question undesignedly became, whether there were five persons in the Divinity — three in heaven and two for Jesus Christ upon earth; or four persons, reckoning Christ upon earth as only one; or three persons, considering Christ only as God. A Philosophical Dictionary
• As the child grew more accustomed to Miss Asphyxia, while her hatred of her increased, somewhat of that native hardihood which had characterized her happier days returned; and she began to use all the subtlety and secretiveness which belonged to her feminine nature in contriving how not to do the will of her tyrant, and yet not to seem designedly to oppose. Oldtown Folks
• The bridge designedly causes them to lie across from each other.
• Micah designedly uses the same preface, implying that his ministrations are a continuation of his predecessor's of the same name. Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
• His book is, designedly, a maze of doubt, where questions are raised, dropped, and brought back looking different. Times, Sunday Times
• In England, however, see how different the case is: and designedly or undesignedly, the artist has opened to us a piece of his mind. George Cruikshank
• And as I had near opened the door, he threw himself on his knees to me against it, and undesignedly hurt my finger with the lock. Sir Charles Grandison