The phrase "almost intended" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe something that was not fully intended or planned, but had some level of intention behind it.
Example: "The message was almost intended to be a joke, but it ended up being taken seriously."
Alternatives: "nearly meant" or "partially intended".
Likewise, the Fed's statement about the federal funds rate has seemed almost intended to undermine any positive confidence effects.
Then, last week, the circus that the trustees have allowed to unfold took a bizarre turn that seemed almost intended to divert attention from the county museum's offer.
By adopting a tone that seemed almost intended to be misunderstood, Mr. Birbiglia is trying out a new comic voice that is willfully weird and strangely compelling.
In other words, lawmakers sidestepped the really difficult decimalization issue, leaving it to the regulators in a way almost intended for nothing to happen.
Near the top of the closing credits, again in time-honored Hollywood fashion, a single line seems almost intended to discourage further curiosity: "Music by John Williams".
"The city has put together a menagerie of rules that seem almost intended to make it as hard as possible to open up and be successful". Taste of Chicago offers an illusion of a city where powerful players coexist with new flavors.
When it was Mr. Romney's turn to respond, he accused Mr. Santorum, as he has in the past, of supporting the "Bridge to Nowhere," a bridge in Alaska that cost almost $400 million and was intended to connect Ketchikan to a sparsely populated island with an airport.
Monday morning's attacks almost seemed intended to puncture Moscow's sense of calm.
Two of the suspicious trailers contained equipment that American military experts concluded was almost certainly intended to produce biological weapons.
Mr. Blankfein, known on Wall Street for a ribald wit, almost certainly intended to make a self-deprecating joke, but his words stuck, and have haunted him since.
It was almost certainly intended by Geoffrey Chaucer to form the basis of his (unfinished) "Cook's Tale" in The Canterbury Tales.
