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Definition of calculated in English: calculatedadjective ˈkalkjʊleɪtɪdˈkælkjəˌleɪdəd (of an action) done with full awareness of the likely consequences. (行为)蓄意的;故意的 victims of vicious and calculated assaults 被恶意攻击的受害人。 Example sentencesExamples - First, an adult might make a calculated decision ‘to bury the hatchet.’
- The experience-its calculated mystery, its silliness-was fun, but the whole phenomenon begs the question: what for?
- I find that she made a calculated decision post-separation to ‘run down the clock’ on the property and financial issues with her husband.
- The evidence suggests the cover-up was conscious, calculated and ongoing.
- Officials generally believe that war results from a calculated, purposive, conscious decision.
- This trial judge, as I read her Honour's findings, found the conduct at least towards the end of the impulsive scale rather than closer to a calculated decision.
- The judge called the attempted robbery planned and calculated and said he had a duty to protect the public and vulnerable premises.
- Rudd has taken a calculated decision to go public.
- Still, if the price is a psychological barrier, rather than a calculated decision, the investor probably shouldn't be buying anyway.
- The peculiar humour of the book has endured a harmless populist transformation, but that does not play like a disadvantageous calculated decision but like inspired fun.
- Jane accuses the firm of using a calculated strategy to fire her because she had been there 11 years and was paid a higher salary than new workers.
- Sensing the shift in ruling circles, and the possibility of winning government, they made a calculated decision that their best interests lay in burying the whole issue.
- The company made a calculated business decision that the number of people it needed to compensate would be less than the profits.
- The idea seems to have caught on in the market for housing accessories where every decision is a calculated choice, often involving the whole family.
- Providing you think things through before you buy, you can be sure that you will make a calculated decision.
- That's what makes music great, it's an emotional, personal impulse, not a calculated decision.
- No-one thought that the concentration camp was a natural disaster: everyone knew that it was the calculated consequence of an evil vision.
- The new employees haven't understood that having a liberal returns policy is a calculated financial decision on our part.
- I took down the details more out of frustration with my job, a wish to explore other avenues, than a calculated decision to study art.
- ‘You took a pre-meditated, calculated and awful revenge,’ the judge told him.
Synonyms deliberate, premeditated, planned, pre-planned, preconceived, intentional, intended, done on purpose, purposeful, purposive, thought out in advance aforethought considered, conscious, studied, strategic Law, dated prepense
Derivativesadverb The well-crafted and calculatedly installed photographs through which he expressed his populist theme determined that the show would be of, but necessarily not by, the people. Example sentencesExamples - His enemies have been able to cast him as a man calculatedly placing himself on both sides of every issue.
- He knew exactly how far he could go; any apparent indiscretion was a calculatedly baited hook.
- The invitation -- calculatedly late, I felt -- intimated that all her regular customers would be there.
- They tend to be sceptical of extreme statements that call state institutions calculatedly inhumane.
- Were some people calculatedly closing down their business premises just so the government might be embarrassed?
- Its characters are calculatedly charming and the script slyly ends each of its tragic notes with a sight gag.
- Don't call it a controversy - even though that's what the coach has deliberately, calculatedly set in motion.
- What we have here is an opposition calculatedly using the tactics of deceit, promising one thing to gain office, with the intention of doing exactly the opposite if elected.
- You deliberately and calculatedly abused trust placed in you by pupils and staff.
- In this calculatedly familiar populist myth, what appears to be a clash of national cultures is, in fact a class conflict: real people vs. rich people and/or country vs. city.
- I held my breath and awaited a reply as you shifted your weight delicately, calculatedly.
- His tall, impressive frame was leaning back comfortably in the big chair behind his desk, the trademark curl of jet-black hair dangling across his brow in a calculatedly insouciant manner.
- I've said that the old regime must be the only regime in the history of the world that deliberately, calculatedly, as a matter of policy, destroyed the skills base of the country's working class.
- They sit somewhere, with malice aforethought, and coldly and calculatedly take someone's character apart.
- His voice was calculatedly calm, betrayed by occasional outbursts of frustration.
- If anything could be more calculatedly red-rag to a bull, I don't know what it is.
- The movie calculatedly attempts to replicate the things that made the original successful, and fails.
- He deliberately and calculatedly chose the county fair to kick off his presidential campaign.
- We must consciously and calculatedly plan to prepare our people to compete to promote and defend our interests and aspirations.
Definition of calculated in US English: calculatedadjectiveˈkalkyəˌlādədˈkælkjəˌleɪdəd (of an action) done with full awareness of the likely consequences. (行为)蓄意的;故意的 victims of vicious and calculated assaults 被恶意攻击的受害人。 Example sentencesExamples - The new employees haven't understood that having a liberal returns policy is a calculated financial decision on our part.
- Still, if the price is a psychological barrier, rather than a calculated decision, the investor probably shouldn't be buying anyway.
- That's what makes music great, it's an emotional, personal impulse, not a calculated decision.
- This trial judge, as I read her Honour's findings, found the conduct at least towards the end of the impulsive scale rather than closer to a calculated decision.
- The evidence suggests the cover-up was conscious, calculated and ongoing.
- ‘You took a pre-meditated, calculated and awful revenge,’ the judge told him.
- The idea seems to have caught on in the market for housing accessories where every decision is a calculated choice, often involving the whole family.
- First, an adult might make a calculated decision ‘to bury the hatchet.’
- Officials generally believe that war results from a calculated, purposive, conscious decision.
- I took down the details more out of frustration with my job, a wish to explore other avenues, than a calculated decision to study art.
- Jane accuses the firm of using a calculated strategy to fire her because she had been there 11 years and was paid a higher salary than new workers.
- Rudd has taken a calculated decision to go public.
- Sensing the shift in ruling circles, and the possibility of winning government, they made a calculated decision that their best interests lay in burying the whole issue.
- The peculiar humour of the book has endured a harmless populist transformation, but that does not play like a disadvantageous calculated decision but like inspired fun.
- The experience-its calculated mystery, its silliness-was fun, but the whole phenomenon begs the question: what for?
- I find that she made a calculated decision post-separation to ‘run down the clock’ on the property and financial issues with her husband.
- No-one thought that the concentration camp was a natural disaster: everyone knew that it was the calculated consequence of an evil vision.
- Providing you think things through before you buy, you can be sure that you will make a calculated decision.
- The company made a calculated business decision that the number of people it needed to compensate would be less than the profits.
- The judge called the attempted robbery planned and calculated and said he had a duty to protect the public and vulnerable premises.
Synonyms deliberate, premeditated, planned, pre-planned, preconceived, intentional, intended, done on purpose, purposeful, purposive, thought out in advance |