as God intended
as God intended phrase: according to the way things are when one's own preferences, ideas, methods, values, etc., are applied or followed. Commonly a disguised or subconscious complaint that things are otherwise.
Phrase
as God intended
- According to the way things are when one's own preferences, ideas, methods, values, etc., are applied or followed. Commonly a disguised or subconscious complaint that things are otherwise.
- Where my cousin lives, it almost always rains on Thursdays, and then they have beautiful sunny weather on the weekend, as God intended.
- I believe it was an English matron who declared that airplanes were an invention of the devil, that people should take trains as God intended.2010 February 6, Paul Krugman, “People Should Travel In Trains As God Intended”, in The New York Times (The Conscience of a Liberal)
- Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see as, God, intended.
Forms of as God intended
| alternative form | the way God intended |
|---|---|
| alternative form | like God intended |
Questions about as God intended
- What does as God intended mean?
- As God intended means according to the way things are when one's own preferences, ideas, methods, values, etc., are applied or followed. Commonly a disguised or subconscious complaint that things are otherwise.
- What part of speech is as God intended?
- As God intended is a phrase.
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Adapted from Wiktionary: as God intended (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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