utile
Example Sentences
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But the words pleasant and useful suggest a possible way forward: They invoke the Roman poet Horace’s two-pronged injunction for art—that it be both dulce et utile.
From Slate ● Mar. 20, 2017
He had always cherished the fact that his wife made objects not only attractive but utile, which should have made them more valuable, not less.
From Salon ● Apr. 18, 2011
His ambivalence seems to surface in the range of diction: the arty "utile," the cliché "arm and a leg," the vulgar rhetorical question.
From Salon ● Apr. 18, 2011
The latest examples of the utile are handsomely represented.
From Time Magazine Archive
People in Carthage are not rich; the shops are not grandiose, and inter-family presents are apt to be trivial and futile—or worse yet, utile.
From Mrs. Budlong's Christmas Presents by Rupert Hughes
