1
as in deliberately
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2
as in cunningly
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for calculatingly
Adverb
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The ones that help clients think clearly, move deliberately and prepare for the rebound.—
Marc Cooper,
Forbes.com,
18 June 2025 -
It was sold to private owners, who renamed the ship Lord Sandwich, and deliberately sunk in Newport Harbor in the midst of war in 1778.—
Emily Mae Czachor,
CBS News,
17 June 2025
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The new batch of six episodes, all written or co-written by its creator Charlie Brooker, reflects the full range of how the show has evolved to include new grooves — a mix of the horrific and the comedic, the hopeful and the nihilistic, the archly British and the sourly American.—
Nicholas Quah,
Vulture,
10 Apr. 2025
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Repeatedly rising to the challenge of maneuvering through the film’s myriad plot twists and tonal shifts, McKellen is by turns imperiously hilarious, archly devious, forlornly melancholy and pathetically desperate.—
Joe Leydon,
Variety,
13 Jan. 2025
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“Calculatingly.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/calculatingly. Accessed 1 Jul. 2025.
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