pragmatical
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Sometimes the examples were saturated, as in the introductory song “Jellicle Cats,” which mentions practical cats, dramatical cats, pragmatical cats, fanatical cats, and so on, one after the other.
From Slate ● Dec. 20, 2019
Truly a melodramatic story, long drawn out by Tolstoy in psychological analysis and pragmatical moralizing, but in this opera retold with truly theatrical effectiveness in only four episodes.
From Time Magazine Archive
Yet few readers will deny that Heiden has made an ingenious, readable, shocking case for his "pragmatical and mechanistically minded modern man, product of mass education, whose sole criterion is: Will it work?"
From Time Magazine Archive
As a scientific man of God, he is shrewd, erudite, pragmatical.
From Time Magazine Archive
And would he not deserve to be hissed and thrown stones at till the pragmatical fool could learn better manners?
From In Praise of Folly Illustrated with Many Curious Cuts by Erasmus, Desiderius
