designedly

Example Sentences

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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

This news preceded by only a few hours and helped to soften�perhaps designedly �the disclosure of the loss of Royal Oak.

From Time Magazine Archive

“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 "Pride and Prejudice" by Jane Austen