calculatingly

But the airstrike was calculatingly limited: The rockets and missiles were intercepted, and damage was minimal.

In the lawsuit, the teachers union cites the estimate as proof that Adams’ “calculatingly foreboding” picture of New York City’s finances is not based in reality.

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

While not essential to casual filmgoers, the study helpfully dissects, for Hitchcock obsessives, this most calculatingly self-conscious director’s methods and compulsions.

Her behavior after a one-night stand is so calculatingly creepy that I found myself, unusually, more worried about her married lover than about her.