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

Now compare that performance to Rickman’s 1988 breakout role in the action thriller “Die Hard,” a role that, for many, redefined the modern movie villain as a calculatingly pathological control freak.

From Washington Post • Jan. 14, 2016

Yes," says Villiam, calculatingly, "this superb animal is a sure 2.40—he cost me just Two dollars and Forty cents.

From The Orpheus C. Kerr Papers, Series 1 by Newell, R. H. (Robert Henry)