more by accident than design

more by accident than (by) design

because of luck and not because of skill I kicked the ball and, more by accident than design, it found its way into the net.

Name	Pronounced	Usage
Creighton	KRAY-tən	English (Rare)
Trenton	TREN-tən	English
Marija	-	Croatian, Slovene, Serbian, Macedonian, Lithuanian, Latvian
Sheryl	SHER-əl	English
EstiÑNe	-	Basque
Frans	FRAHNS (Dutch, Finnish)	Dutch, Swedish, Norwegian, Danish, Finnish