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Another word for calculating

Adjective

  1. Coldly planning to achieve selfish aims

    2. See also:

    attitude

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Another word for calculating

Modifier
    2. See also:

    sly

    intelligent

© WEBSTER’S NEW WORLD® ROGET’S A-Z THESAURUS by Charlton Laird and the editors of Webster’s New World dictionaries. Copyright © 1999 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

Sentence Examples

  • His look was calculating and judging.

  • He was probably calculating the time.

  • She looked them over dismissively, calculating what it would take to kill them all.

  • It is thus customary in calculating diurnal inequalities either to take no account of days on which there is an appreciable rainfall, or else to form separate tables for " dry " or " fine " days and for " all " days.

  • A shopkeeper with red pimples on his cheeks near the nose, and a calm, persistent, calculating expression on his plump face, hurriedly and ostentatiously approached the officer, swinging his arms.

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