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Calculative

adjective
1.
Used of persons.  Synonyms: calculating, conniving, scheming, shrewd.






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"Calculative" Quotes from Famous Books



... Calculative work is better suited than imaginative work to free the brain. I would urge inquirers to ask themselves, whether Mrs. Piper's doings could be accounted for in any other ...
— Inferences from Haunted Houses and Haunted Men • John Harris

... than one hundred and fifty thousand marks, perhaps less," said the expert, rolling his calculative eye upward and running it along the vast dome of the hall as if to figure it out in ...
— A Fool and His Money • George Barr McCutcheon



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