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
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
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
The physician was one of those men who achieve a fashionable practice by an outrageous bluntness—a calculatedly outrageous bluntness.
From Swirling Waters by Rittenberg, Max
