How To Use Designedly In A Sentence
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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.
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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
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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.
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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
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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
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The bridge designedly causes them to lie across from each other.
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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
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His book is, designedly, a maze of doubt, where questions are raised, dropped, and brought back looking different.
Times, Sunday Times
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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
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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
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Hence it is plain that not fortuitously, but designedly, do they achieve their end.
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These are complex ideas designedly imperfect: and it is visible at first sight, that several of those qualities that are to be found in the things themselves are purposely left out of generical ideas.
An Essay Concerning Human Understanding
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A few days afterwards the mayor issued a notice which stated how the heads had been ‘wilfully and designedly taken down and carried away’.
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Only it may be remarked that the word awful, which is here used designedly, is not meant to imply that the loss of life was unusually large or the cruelty of the captors outrageous; in both respects Alaric and his Goths would compare favourably with some generals and some armies making much higher pretensions to civilisation.
Theodoric the Goth Barbarian Champion of Civilisation
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By himself, he tends to be slightly frigid, his designedly emotional scenes too obviously calculated’.
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Bishop then came undesignedly sidling in the direction of the sideboard.
Little Dorrit
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Indeed he had cunning enough to give me, undesignedly, a piece of instruction which taught me this caution; for he had said in conversation once, ‘That if a man could not make a woman in courtship own herself pleased with him, it was as much and oftentimes more to his purpose to make her angry with him.’
Clarissa Harlowe
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Chia Cheng was already aware that it was a lichee, but he designedly made a few guesses at random, and was fined several things; but he subsequently gave, at length, the right answer, and also obtained a present from her ladyship.
Hung Lou Meng
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So far its new policy has designedly disenfranchised many eligible disabled and chronically ill students.
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Making use of emotion flexibly in order to prompt action creatively and designedly.
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There is much that people do designedly to exercise some control over their self-development and life circumstances.
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It was horrible to think that I had provided the weapon, however undesignedly, but I could hardly think otherwise.
Great Expectations
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However, "Assyria" is designedly used to point ultimately to the future restoration of the ten fully, never yet accomplished (Jer 3: 18).
Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
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Air operations were designedly part of an integrated, joint military campaign, rather than a free-standing enterprise.
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But I was tickled most by the rooms of its farmhands and their own kitchen and dining room - all beautifully, designedly rustic - that suggested ‘downstairs’ is the new ‘upstairs’.
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No issue illustrates this more vividly than the administration's designedly ambivalent attitude to the country.
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If I am mistaken, it is undesignedly, which is sufficient to absolve me of all criminal error; and if I am right, reason, which is common to us both, shall decide.
Paras. 1-50
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Next comes a treatment of a number of authors who treated music as an imitative art, designedly reproducing the sounds and the feelings experienced by human beings.
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This book has covered a time-span that is deliberately broad and used definitions of ‘modern Britain’ that are designedly flexible.
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But they do seem to be designedly variant, especially where the Alpine setting is concerned.
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One is left guessing whether essential marks have been omitted simply through carelessness, or designedly for a mock-modern effect.
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As such he is responsible for his action and ‘very properly receives blame for the offences which he designedly commits.’
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The word "appointed" (so Hebrew "seth" means) in the case of man, answers to "anointed" in the case of Jesus; therefore "the Christ," that is, the anointed, is the title here given designedly.
Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
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But, however that is to be, we have all laid our heads together, and are determined, for your delicacy — sake, to let this matter take its course; since, after an opening so undesignedly warm, you might otherwise imagine our solicitude in the affair capable of beiny thought too urgent.
Sir Charles Grandison
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His half-hour speech was designedly devoid of eye-catching announcements and surprise stunts.
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Absolution for having committed homicide in self-defence, or undesignedly, ninety-five livres.
A Philosophical Dictionary
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Such resistance to the hortatory mode in what is a designedly didactic poem recalls the paradoxical structure of ‘What I expected.’
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Hence it is plain that they achieve their end, not fortuitously, but designedly.
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Nevertheless, the Legislature, well-knowing this, has designedly left it to councils to determine at the next stage whether objections should be sustained.