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
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
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
The latest examples of the utile are handsomely represented.
From Time Magazine Archive
Si consilium vis, Permittes ipsis expendere numinibus, quid Conveniat nobis, rebusque sit utile nostris.
From Cannibals all! or, Slaves without masters by Fitzhugh, George
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
