calculatingly
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But the airstrike was calculatingly limited: The rockets and missiles were intercepted, and damage was minimal.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 29, 2024
While not essential to casual filmgoers, the study helpfully dissects, for Hitchcock obsessives, this most calculatingly self-conscious director’s methods and compulsions.
From Washington Post ● Apr. 12, 2021
My bipolar delusions were never so calculatingly self-serving.
From The New Yorker ● Mar. 4, 2019
Even on editors and buyers, the most calculatingly style-conscious folks imaginable, shorts were as common a sight in Paris as cigarette smoking teenagers.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 28, 2018
The other drew a hand across his mouth calculatingly and jerked his hat-brim still lower.
From I Conquered by Harold Titus
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