DESIGNEDLY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does designedly mean? 

• DESIGNEDLY (adverb)
  The adverb DESIGNEDLY has 1 sense:

1. with intention; in an intentional manner

  Familiarity information: DESIGNEDLY used as an adverb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• DESIGNEDLY (adverb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

With intention; in an intentional manner

Synonyms:

advisedly; by choice; by design; deliberately; designedly; intentionally; on purpose; purposely

Context example:

I did this by choice

 Context examples 

Designedly, at least, Henry could not have betrayed her.

(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)

She must tell you herself what she is—yet not by word, for never was there a human creature who would so designedly suppress her own merit.

(Emma, by Jane Austen)

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.

(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)

First, said Mr. Micawber, When Mr. W.'s faculties and memory for business became, through causes into which it is not necessary or expedient for me to enter, weakened and confused,—HEEP—designedly perplexed and complicated the whole of the official transactions. When Mr. W. was least fit to enter on business,—HEEP was always at hand to force him to enter on it. He obtained Mr. W.'s signature under such circumstances to documents of importance, representing them to be other documents of no importance.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)