Adjective : studied simplicity. ,a studied approval. From Dictionary.com.
Her face remained studiedly blank, landside style. From Wordnik.com. [Starfishers]
Slowly, almost studiedly, the little man pulled the trigger. From Wordnik.com. [Bobby's Last, Longest Day] Reference
Do you think that the headlines would be so studiedly neutral?. From Wordnik.com. [So it goes on…] Reference
Not only Sleepy but most of the others turned studiedly blank faces my way. From Wordnik.com. [Soldiers Live]
“I like the sound of that,” his wingman said, his voice studiedly casual. From Wordnik.com. [Terror At Dawn]
It was neither studiedly cold, nor absurdly brief, nor traitorously tremulous. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 06, No. 38, December, 1860] Reference
She and Julie paused at the door, as studiedly melodramatic as Clint Eastwood. From Wordnik.com. [Conferences are Murder]
I snapped a shot of him as the bull brushed past his studiedly world-weary face. From Wordnik.com. [Mexico]
Our wives remained as studiedly sweet to each other as only women who disdain each other can. From Wordnik.com. [Stephen Marlowe] Reference
The punishment for an unwitting error should not be the same as that for studiedly obnoxious mendacity. From Wordnik.com. [Firedoglake » Clueless] Reference
Roald sat through the whole self-congratulatory jamboree with a studiedly grumpy expression on his face. From Wordnik.com. [Storyteller] Reference
Next Gen is the PC series, studiedly cerebral, with a highly ordered universe and constant continuity checks. From Wordnik.com. [William Bradley: Star Trek Firsts... 43 Years On] Reference
For brunch, prepare to jostle with studiedly dressed 20-somethings from surrounding Greenpoint and Williamsburg. From Wordnik.com. [Early Risers, and More] Reference
Suspecting that objects so studiedly hideous might be worth something, he resolved to try selling them on the Internet. From Wordnik.com. [Unearthly Asylum] Reference
"I believe you are right," said April slowly, "though it is hard to understand how any one could do a thing so studiedly cruel.". From Wordnik.com. [Blue Aloes Stories of South Africa] Reference
Their strategy is to adopt a studiedly undogmatic style, and to come across as amiable debaters willing to listen to your doubts. From Wordnik.com. [Life: The battle for American science] Reference
The embassy was snobbish, humorless, hierarchical and studiedly intellectual—in short it was just the kind of place Dahl loathed. From Wordnik.com. [Storyteller] Reference
But at least makes for studiedly zany architecture. From Wordnik.com. [Fast Company] Reference
The café is very inviting, rather than studiedly trendy. From Wordnik.com. [Budapest Times]
His letters home, while brief, were studiedly confident of tone. From Wordnik.com. [The Light of the Star A Novel] Reference
Can there be a partisan payoff from so studiedly non-partisan a speech?. From Wordnik.com. [The Globe and Mail - Home RSS feed] Reference
"What sort of a duke or marquis?" asked Hester, in a studiedly wooden way. From Wordnik.com. [Weighed and Wanting] Reference
His mates stood around him, listening rather studiedly to the conversation. From Wordnik.com. [The Bread-winners A Social Study] Reference
Darkness, and the distance I was from him, induced a studiedly cautious reply. From Wordnik.com. [Personal Memoirs of a Residence of Thirty Years with the Indian Tribes on the American Frontiers] Reference
95 Yet this studiedly enigmatic exterior also belied something of the self-publicist. From Wordnik.com. [Storyteller] Reference
There's a good deal more of the novel's studiedly surfacing and over-surfacing of detail. From Wordnik.com. [The Valve] Reference
This brought the blood to the younger man's cheek, but he was studiedly careless in reply. From Wordnik.com. [The Light of the Star A Novel] Reference
He studiedly excluded from observation every thing which could remind him of that doom of mortals. From Wordnik.com. [Louis XIV. Makers of History Series] Reference
Steve was studiedly haughty, as, to his mind, became one who was unjustly suspected of dishonesty. From Wordnik.com. [Left End Edwards] Reference
He was studiedly colloquial - "You won't believe this, Jacqueline" - and cast himself as the rebel. From Wordnik.com. [Politics news, UK and world political comment and analysis | guardian.co.uk] Reference
As for Mrs. Riston, she was studiedly polite, but gave the young men no very apparent encouragement. From Wordnik.com. [Married Life: its shadows and sunshine] Reference
Then he disliked himself for saying it even before the bronze-skinned men's faces grew studiedly impassive. From Wordnik.com. [Sand Doom] Reference
Their voices were low and precise and studiedly emotionless, but after a while the inquiry members 'different. From Wordnik.com. [Politics news, UK and world political comment and analysis | guardian.co.uk] Reference
Everyone was studiedly kind to her, but Lettice was sensitive enough to feel the effort which lay behind the kindness. From Wordnik.com. [Sisters Three] Reference
Nowra … lives a studiedly bohemian life with his writer wife, Mandy Sayer, in Sydney's red-light area, Kings Cross …. From Wordnik.com. [Larvatus Prodeo] Reference
Her manner was studiedly rowdyish, her speech marred by slang; she loved only a few persons in the world besides herself. From Wordnik.com. [The Heart of Rachael] Reference
I saw the blue fire in my husband's eyes before he spoke; but his voice was even and full; every sentence was studiedly calm. From Wordnik.com. [Marion Harland's autobiography : the story of a long life,] Reference
A few studiedly bland press conferences and a string of bad results could see him pilloried in the papers: how will he react to that?. From Wordnik.com. [TEAMtalk Football News] Reference
In the suburbs of our cities you may see, reduplicated in endless rows, studiedly quaint imitations and adaptations of the village hovel. From Wordnik.com. [Crome Yellow] Reference
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