Designing
[dɪ'zaɪnɪŋ]
Definition
(adj.) concealing crafty designs for advancing your own interest; 'a selfish and designing nation obsessed with the dark schemes of European intrigue'- W.Churchill; 'a scheming wife'; 'a scheming gold digger' .
Typist: Xavier--From WordNet
Definition
(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Design
(a.) Intriguing; artful; scheming; as, a designing man.
(n.) The act of making designs or sketches; the act of forming designs or plans.
Typist: Natalie
Synonyms and Synonymous
a. Insidious, deceitful, artful, intriguing, sly, wily, astute, subtle, cunning, crafty, arch, trickish, TRICKY, treacherous, crooked, diplomatic, Machiavelian.
Editor: Marilyn
Synonyms and Antonyms
[See DESIGN_and_ARTFUL]
Checker: Newman
Examples
- Together they set about designing the machine to make it as nearly perfect as possible in adaptation to the needs of modern business. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- I could not help saying, If you were a wicked, designing man, how terrible would all this be! Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- I would never have treated Miss Crawley's faithful friends as that odious designing Mrs. Bute has done. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- He was a good musician, a skilful draughtsman and painter, something of a poet, and had shown considerable talent in designing and building a variety of toy machines. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
- I told her that I believed she had given me a faithful account of herself, and that we had both been hapless instruments in designing hands. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
- Designing persons in my absence might shake the simple confidence of Mrs. Clements, and she might not write after all. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- He has also provided for ornamentation of a high class in designing the details of the structure. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- Moore, who was the first General Manager of the Edison Company for Isolated Lighting, as a draftsman to undertake the work of designing and building Edison's electric locomotive No. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- You have a curious, designing mind, Mr. Rochester. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- And as for the vague something--was it a sinister or a sorrowful, a designing or a desponding expression? Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- The projection of the figures also increases the use of the instrument in designing patterns, for which purpose it has been employed with great advantage. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
- Tell him I am a match-maker; tell him I am an artful and designing woman; tell him you are sure his daughter is best out of my house and my company. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- Now they set to work to build quinqueremes, being helped, it is said, in their designing by one of these Carthaginian vessels coming ashore. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Mr. Moore was a man of great railroad and locomotive experience, and his knowledge in that direction was of great assistance in the designing and building of this locomotive. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
Typed by Elbert