calculatedly

calculatedly

English

Etymology

    From calculated + -ly.

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    Adverb

    calculatedly (comparative more calculatedly, superlative most calculatedly)

    1. In a calculated manner.
      • 2010 August 30, Charlie Brooker, “Buzzwords for blowhards”, in The Guardian[1], archived from the original on 30 May 2023:
        Have you tried doing it yourself? It's not easy. I was hoping to illustrate this article with some self-created buzzwords for leftwingers to use. The first one I came up with was "molehill mountaineer", a pejorative term to describe the sort of perpetually furious rightwing weevil who spends their life calculatedly conflating issues such as the "Ground Zero mosque" into gigantic media crapgasms.

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