unintended

[ US /ˌənɪnˈtɛndɪd/ ]
[ UK /ˌʌnɪntˈɛndɪd/ ]
ADJECTIVE
  1. not deliberate
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How To Use unintended In A Sentence

  • With the no-doubt unintended effect of suggesting that Wallace's menace and ensuing mayhem might, in hindsight, be laughed-off like a good-ol'-boy joke, "George Wallace: Settin 'the Woods on Fire" takes part of its title, and its misguided musical leitmotif from a wacky, Hank Williams party-hearty song. Film/Television: Lost Highways
  • Unfortunately, this approach has the unintended potential consequence of increasing stock option overhang.
  • Important unintended consequences need to be accounted for when mergers are planned.
  • A misinterpretation of S that makes it true is known as a nonstandard or unintended model of S. Model Theory
  • At an investor conference last month, Bank of America Corp. Chief Executive Officer Brian Moynihan indicated that each additional percentage point of required capital would remove the support for $220 billion in assets at his bank, which he described as potentially "unintended consequences of the tougher rules. Bank M&A Goes MIA in 2011
  • Operations intended to be plausibly deniable usually end up as neither, and the Agency gets blamed for the unintended consequences.
  • I think it's brought the world a lot closer together, and will continue to do that. There are downsides to everything; there are unintended consequences to everything. The most corrosive piece of technology that I've ever seen is called television - but then, again, television, at its best, is magnificent. Steve Jobs 
  • She told me that many black students experience unintended racial insults (sociologists call this "microaggression"), and that racist expression, intended or not, often gets a pass.
  • A Well-formed outcome is a term originating in neuro-linguistic programming for an outcome one wishes to achieve, that meets certain conditions designed to avoid (1) unintended costs or consequences and (2) resistance to achieving the goal resulting from internal conflicting feelings or thoughts about the outcome. [key stages 1-10] in becoming a worker bee
  • But the unintended consequence of the project, along with the completion of the St. Lawrence Seaway in 1959, was that this new water superhighway became a conveyor for invasive species traveling between the Great Lakes and the Gulf of Mexico. Amid carp threat, a call to unhook
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