calculatedly
Example Sentences
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It is unclear if this happened inadvertently or calculatedly.
From Slate ● Sep. 19, 2024
The grotesque prosthetic effects and nerve-shredding sound design are first rate; they’re also a calculatedly showy distraction.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 27, 2023
Yet both have calculatedly peddled their images — like plenty of the born rich do — as industrious, self-made success stories.
From Salon ● Apr. 1, 2023
His self-determined walk away into the sunrise is a victory over a ruinous game that would have stolen the jersey off his back years ago had he not been so calculatedly self-protective.
From Washington Post ● Feb. 1, 2023
In lieu of that calculatedly slovenly disguise which he had affected in the hinter-land, he was immaculate in the fineness of his linen and the tailoring of his evening clothes.
From A Pagan of the Hills by Buck, Charles Neville
