Associations to the word «Designing»

Wiktionary

DESIGNING, verb. Present participle of design
DESIGNING, adjective. Artful; scheming
DESIGNING, noun. A process of design.

Dictionary definition

DESIGNING, noun. The act of working out the form of something (as by making a sketch or outline or plan); "he contributed to the design of a new instrument".
DESIGNING, adjective. 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".

Wise words

Words - so innocent and powerless as they are, as standing in a dictionary, how potent for good and evil they become in the hands of one who knows how to combine them.
Nathaniel Hawthorne