calculatingly

Example Sentences

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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

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

It’s a shame that the beginning of a movement that has come so far, so fast has been reduced to a trite, calculatingly manipulative reenactment.

From Washington Post • Sep. 23, 2015

She was deliberately impulsive; calculatingly reckless; systematically chaotic.

From Princess Zara by Knight, Bert