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Examples
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They had planned, callowly, to meet and compare adventures in ten years.
The Planet Strappers Raymond Z. Gallun 1952
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She believed again, as in commercial college she had callowly believed, that business was beginning to see itself as communal, world-ruling, and beginning to be inspired to communal, kingly virtues and responsibility.
The Job An American Novel Sinclair Lewis 1918
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Pretty Woman was a "plastic screwball soap opera," and I complained, a bit starchily, that "These are the kinds of characters who exist nowhere but in the minds of callowly manipulative Hollywood screenwriters."
EW.com: Today's Latest Headlines Owen Gleiberman 2010
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Whether or not politics is based on horseshit and bullying, as you claim, I still want my journalists to seek truth, rather than whatever is callowly convenient for partisanship, and when I make my decisions, it's based on facts, not propaganda.
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He sneered callowly that “I reckon I had better black my face, for in these Eastern States niggers are considerably better than white people.”
Mark Twain Ron Powers 2005
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He sneered callowly that “I reckon I had better black my face, for in these Eastern States niggers are considerably better than white people.”
Mark Twain Ron Powers 2005
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