designingly

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

designing +‎ -ly

Adverb[edit]

designingly (comparative more designingly, superlative most designingly)

  1. With sinister designs; insidiously.
    • 1886, Merrill Edwards Gates, Annual Report of the Board of Indian Commissioners, volume 17:
      The vilest, most designingly wicked men our century knows.