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Webster 1913 Edition
Designing
De-sign′ing
,Adj.
Intriguing; artful; scheming;
as, a
. designing
manDe-sign′ing
,Noun.
The act of making designs or sketches; the act of forming designs or plans.
Webster 1828 Edition
Designing
DESIGNING
, ppr.1.
Forming a design; plnning; delineating the outline; drawing figures on a plane.2.
A. In an ill sense, artful; insidious; intriguing; contriving schemes of mischief; hence, deceitful. Designing men are always liable to suspicion.DESIGNING
,Noun.
Definition 2024
designing
designing
English
Verb
designing
- present participle of design
Adjective
designing (comparative more designing, superlative most designing)
Translations
artful; scheming
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Noun
designing (plural designings)
- A process of design.
- 1829, Richard Carlile, The Lion
- Are these, the reality of things, a part of the great designings or are they not? If so, it would have been better, that there had been no such designings; if not, how is the theory of omnipotent design borne out?
- 1829, Richard Carlile, The Lion