Example Sentences

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The phrase was well-timed, though perhaps undesignedly so.

From Adeline Mowbray or, The Mother and Daughter by Opie, Amelia Alderson

He pursued a policy which, designedly or undesignedly, was calculated to bring our rule to an end.

From The Quarterly Review, Volume 162, No. 324, April, 1886 by Various

Afterwards, desiring to put something on a small table, he pushed it and the table forwards, undesignedly.

From The Life of Charles Dickens, Vol. I-III, Complete by Forster, John

Be cautious how you do any thing to offend them; and should you offend them undesignedly, rest neither night nor day till you have obtained their forgiveness.

From The Looking-Glass for the Mind or Intellectual Mirror by Bewick, John

An envious feeling seems to have been engendered in the hearts of several of his colleagues in the “ministerium” of the city, when they noticed the honor which the author had undesignedly gained.

From True Christianity by Arndt, Johann