calculatingly

adverb

Definition of calculatinglynext
1
as in deliberately

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2
as in cunningly

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Recent Examples of calculatingly In São Paulo as in LA, downtown neighborhoods are calculatingly encircled by transportation infrastructure that has displaced thousands of working-class people, often through the brutality of eminent domain, which allows the government to force the sale of property for public use. — Michaëla De Lacaze Mohrmann, Artforum, 1 Jan. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for calculatingly
  1. deliberately
  2. cunningly
  3. slyly
  4. craftily
  5. insidiously
  6. sharply
  7. furtively
  8. archly
Adverb
  • Roughly 7 in 10 people globally believe government officials, business leaders and journalists are deliberately misleading them.
    — Jamie Gutfreund, Forbes.com, 12 Aug. 2026
  • After the 2008 financial crisis, the Fed began more deliberately guiding the market to near certainty on the trajectory of rates heading into its meetings.
    — John Towfighi, CNN Money, 11 Aug. 2026
Definition of deliberately
Adverb
  • Penelope remains faithful and rules Ithaca in his absence, cunningly stalling her suitors.
    — Clare Mulroy, USA Today, 20 July 2026
  • But cunningly, in the years since 1945—and responsibly and rightly, too—the United States put together a system where most of the other strong countries were also friends.
    — David Frum, The Atlantic, 8 Apr. 2026
Definition of cunningly
Adverb
  • Ever since ’Daya slyly popped out with a giant rock on her ring finger, the couple has been pretty private about confirming their next life stage.
    — Alejandra Gularte, Vulture, 6 Aug. 2026
  • Featuring a cast of creatures from ravens to coyotes, the record is slyly immersive without calling too much attention to Meiburg’s sylvan collaborators.
    — David Harris, SPIN, 4 Aug. 2026
Definition of slyly
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  • As the only standalone English track of the album, its lyrics speak of a situationship so suspended in uncertainty that Selines craftily matched it with the sonic sensation of floating into outer space.
    — Andrea Flores, Los Angeles Times, 1 July 2026
  • Some players struggled against the size of bigger and stronger players, while others craftily created space with deft footwork and manipulation.
    — Devin Robertson, MSNBC Newsweek, 27 Aug. 2025
Definition of craftily
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  • In the American West, where playing dress-up in reenactments and photo booths and even city streets is already so commonplace, this line of questioning is insidiously limited.
    — Téa Obreht, Condé Nast Traveler, 11 Aug. 2026
  • Often nearly invisible to the naked eye, microplastics have insidiously found their way into people’s lungs, arterial plaques and brains through food, air and water, researchers have found.
    — Kate Nishimura, Footwear News, 7 Apr. 2026
Definition of insidiously
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  • It’s been swinging sharply recently and pinballed between $72 and $102 last month as hopes rose and fell that a deal in the war could allow oil tankers to freely exit the Middle East again and deliver crude worldwide.
    — Stan Choe, Chicago Tribune, 13 Aug. 2026
  • Clashes escalated sharply in February when Afghan forces launched a raid into Pakistan in retaliation for Pakistani airstrikes inside Afghanistan.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 12 Aug. 2026
Definition of sharply
Adverb
  • Kikuko, her appetite sluggish, nibbled the bread bit by bit from the edges, all the while furtively watching her father.
    — Cynthia Zarin, Harpers Magazine, 4 Aug. 2026
  • It’s meant to blends furtively into a bookshelf or sits elegantly atop a bedside table, never inside it.
    — Tiana Randall, Forbes.com, 22 July 2026
Definition of furtively
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  • That virtue is undermined here by leads with minimal chemistry, one of them inexpressive and the other archly theatrical, by design if not to rewarding effect.
    — David Rooney, HollywoodReporter, 21 May 2026
  • The show, which followed a crooked New Mexican lawyer, played by Bob Odenkirk, was an archly funny drama, shot partly in gritty black-and-white.
    — Rachel Syme, New Yorker, 29 Sep. 2025
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“Calculatingly.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/calculatingly. Accessed 17 Aug. 2026.

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