Meaning of designing in English

Examples from literature
  • He thinks it highly probable that some of these deluded women were actually the dupes of unprincipled and designing men, who arrayed themselves in various disguises and then met their unfortunate victims by appointment. 
  • It doesn't matter that she was,—and still may be designing,—the fact remains that she is the woman you love and that you are her man. 
  • Mutual suspicions and reproaches may in time create mutual hostility, and artful and designing men will always be found who are ready to foment these fatal divisions and to inflame the natural jealousies of different sections of the country. 
  • Then that poor child would be safe from these designing, horrid people. 
  • You haven't understood yet what a cruelly designing and artful and vindictive and long-waiting enemy he can be. 
(Definition of designing from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus © Cambridge University Press)
 

Translations of designing

in Chinese (Traditional)
有不軌企圖的,不懷好意的…
in Chinese (Simplified)
有不良企图的,不怀好意的…
in Spanish
diseño…
in Portuguese
design…
in more languages
in French
in Turkish
in Dutch
in Czech
in Danish
in Indonesian
in Thai
in Vietnamese
in Polish
in Swedish
in Malay
in German
in Norwegian
in Ukrainian
stylisme…
model yaratma…
het ontwerpen…
projektování, návrhářství…
formgivning, tegning, konstruktion…
perancangan…
ศิลปะในการออกแบบ…
sự thiết kế…
projektowanie…
formgivning, design…
mereka…
das Design…
formgiving, tegning, konstruksjon…
проектування, конструювання…
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