designedly
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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 ● Dec. 14, 2020
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 ● Jun. 27, 2016
The sentence often flows on over stanza break, and finds its caesurae in designedly awkward places.
From The Guardian ● Dec. 13, 2010
Roger Brielle's Birth of Christ is designedly childlike in technique.
From Time Magazine Archive
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 "Paper Towns" by John Green
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