undesigned
Americanadjective
adjective
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(of an action) unintentional
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not yet designed
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Origin of undesigned
Example Sentences
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Known for his mobility from his time at North Carolina, Howell appeared poised in the pocket, still going through his reads before tucking and running on undesigned run plays.
From Washington Post • Aug. 28, 2022
It’s pocket-sized, flimsy, staple-bound and feels undesigned, its appearance deliberately lo-fi and approachable.
From The Guardian • Jul. 31, 2017
For the young ones, Dory ponders, there's still something brand-new ahead — "the love that lay waiting like a web page as yet undesigned, or maybe even like a forest as yet unwalked in."
From Seattle Times • Apr. 6, 2011
Paul Poiret, the first celebrity couturier, left nothing undesigned, not only what a woman wore but everything she touched.
From Time Magazine Archive
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The difficulty, equally and utterly insuperable in both cases, is to understand how the difference can have been undesigned.
From Old-Fashioned Ethics and Common-Sense Metaphysics With Some of Their Applications by Thornton, William Thomas
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