Meaning
打算的 (ださんてき, dasanteki) is a bonus vocabulary word meaning “calculating; self-centered”.
Kanji in this word
Example sentences 6
彼は余りに打算的だ
He is too calculating.
彼はとても打算的だ。
He is very mercenary.
あいつはとても打算的だ。
He is very mercenary.
あの男のすることは何でも打算的だ.
He always has his own interests in mind.
あの男のすることは何でも打算的だ.《口語》
He always has an eye to the main chance.
ある人が、約束の表明とか行為によって、別の人に、あるやり方で自分が行動をし続けることに信頼させ、期待や打算を作り出し、その推測に人生計画のなにがしかを賭けさせたなら、その人にはその他人にたいして新しい一連の道徳的義務が生じるのであり、その義務を踏みにじることはできても、無視することはできません。
When a person, either by express promise or by conduct, has encouraged another to rely upon his continuing to act in a certain way—to build expectations and calculations, and stake any part of his plan of life upon that supposition—a new series of moral obligations arises on his part towards that person, which may possibly be overruled, but cannot be ignored.