calculatedly
Example Sentences
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It’s certainly possible that this is ragebait—a confession so calculatedly oblivious to its own evil that it can’t possibly be true, its only goal to rile up outrage for internet points.
From Slate ● Apr. 26, 2024
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
At a certain point in “Funny Pages,” a calculatedly abrasive portrait of the comic-book artist as a young man, I lost count of exactly how many of its characters I’d envisioned falling off a cliff.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 25, 2022
I told Hailyn Chen, the lawyer co-leading the Cal investigation, that one swimmer has described the structure of the probe as calculatedly passive, with no clear mission to reach out to accusers for in-depth interviews.
From Salon ● Jun. 20, 2022
This information, coming though it did from many sources, was calculatedly false, and Eugene’s movements, after the siege of Villingen had been raised, were arranged with a masterly penetration of his enemy’s mind.
From The Battle of Blenheim by Hilaire Belloc
