intentional

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Whether intentional or not, this is some of the best PR marketing copy I've ever seen.

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Quick take

characterized by conscious design or purpose; "intentional damage"; "a knowing attempt to defraud"; "a willful waste of time"

Meaning at a glance

The clearest senses and uses of intentional gathered in one view.

adjective

characterized by conscious design or purpose; "intentional damage"; "a knowing attempt to defraud"; "a willful waste of time"

adjective

done or made or performed with purpose and intent; "style...is more than the deliberate and designed creation"- Havelock Ellis; "games designed for all ages"; "well-designed houses"

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for intentional.

adjective

characterized by conscious design or purpose; "intentional damage"; "a knowing attempt to defraud"; "a willful waste of time"

adjective

done or made or performed with purpose and intent; "style...is more than the deliberate and designed creation"- Havelock Ellis; "games designed for all ages"; "well-designed houses"

Example sentences

Whether intentional or not, this is some of the best PR marketing copy I've ever seen.

M&A guys are experts at sniffing out things you're not telling us, intentional or simply forgotten.

This probably wasn't intentional, they must have probably believed in what they told their developers.

It is explicit, intentional putting-down of someone because they aren't as good at something as you are or think they should be.

So it's either someone else's hackjob or it is original and the discrepancies are intentional.

This behavior wasn't a mistake or an oversight, it was completely intentional from the beginning.

It is a serious breach of ethics if intentional, a show-stopping flaw in Canonical's Software Center system if not, and illegal in any case.

Specifically, pursuant to this interpretation, an unauthorized intentional monitoring of a cellular phone call could be lawful should the content of the communication relate to vehicles or persons in distress, but unlawful otherwise.

""For man's everyday needs, it would have been quite enough to have the ordinary human consciousness, that is, half or a quarter of the amount which falls to the lot of a cultivated man of our unhappy nineteenth century, especially one who has the fatal ill-luck to inhabit Petersburg, the most theoretical and intentional town on the whole terrestrial globe.