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

“The Conservatives selected him quite coolly, quite calculatingly, because they thought he was a winner,” Professor Garton Ash said.

From New York Times • Jul. 9, 2022

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

Mrs. Bean, herself chewing calculatingly, handed Mrs. Tinneray a bit of sugared calamus-root.

From The Best Short Stories of 1917 and the Yearbook of the American Short Story by O'Brien, Edward J. (Edward Joseph Harrington)