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

The way he played — instinctually, decisively, calculatingly, silently, with little movement beyond his shifting eyes and nimble fingers — meant he could play several hundred hands an hour.

From New York Times • Oct. 4, 2017

She looked at him calculatingly a long moment as he twirled his hat and kicked at a pebble with his boot.

From I Conquered by Titus, Harold