Definitions

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  • adjective Not thought out in advance; spontaneous.

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  • adjective Not calculated; lacking forethought

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un- +‎ calculated

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Examples

  • There are some possibilities, and one may think of some caustic motives which has drawn the young man to make such "uncalculated" comments, as Iran's FM Spokesman Ramin Mehmanparast told the media.

    NZ On Screen 2010

  • It is exactly this "uncalculated" quality that the band returns to on their eighth album.

    "xchannel" via Mindfield in Google Reader 2010

  • There are some possibilities, and one may think of some caustic motives which has drawn the young man to make such "uncalculated" comments, as Iran's FM Spokesman Ramin Mehmanparast told the media.

    NZ On Screen 2010

  • There are some possibilities, and one may think of some caustic motives which has drawn the young man to make such "uncalculated" comments, as Iran's FM Spokesman Ramin Mehmanparast told the media.

    NZ On Screen 2010

  • It is exactly this "uncalculated" quality that the band returns to on their eighth album.

    "xchannel" via Mindfield in Google Reader 2010

  • There are some possibilities, and one may think of some caustic motives which has drawn the young man to make such "uncalculated" comments, as Iran's FM Spokesman Ramin Mehmanparast told the media.

    NZ On Screen 2010

  • But Herzog's presence, his insistence on being in the middle of things, is something more like an artistic strategy – which is to say it's the very opposite of a strategy, unless it's possible to be both strategic and uncalculated, canny and impulsive at the same time.

    Werner Herzog, the adventurous spirit 2011

  • "This is injustice, it's a clear aggression and it is uncalculated risk for its consequences on the Mediterranean and Europe," read the official English text.

    In Libyan Capital, a Mixed Mood Sam Dagher 2011

  • This is injustice, it's a clear aggression and it is uncalculated risk for its consequences on the Mediterranean and Europe.

    In Libyan Capital, a Mixed Mood Sam Dagher 2011

  • Through governmental laxity or under-regulation, allowing oil and gas companies to contaminate nationwide water supplies with unregulated toxic chemicals, as detailed in the film, Gasland, creating long-term, uncalculated, negative health, food, and economic impacts

    Alison Rose Levy: Health Care in America: 4 Human Beliefs That Enable Harmful Health Policies Alison Rose Levy 2010

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