utilitarian

Even as someone who works in food, my first meal of the day tends to veer utilitarian, including on weekends, when I may not eat it until 10 or 11.

From Salon ● Jul. 20, 2026

In Colonial-era America, sculpture was a craft, not an art, its practitioners artisans who fashioned utilitarian objects like ships’ figureheads and shop signs.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 2, 2026

For you, goods and services serve a utilitarian function.

From MarketWatch ● Apr. 17, 2026

They said the design went "beyond a utilitarian warehousing development" and approved the plan.

From BBC ● Mar. 26, 2026

Here is Bertrand Russell using it to explain the movement called romanticism: The romantic movement is characterized, as a whole, by the substitution of aesthetic for utilitarian standards.

From "The Sense of Style" by Steven Pinker

For standard utilitarians, people are nothing more than the "containers" or "vessels" of value.

From Salon ● Jul. 17, 2022

To avoid such problems, rule utilitarians argue that we should apply the greatest happiness principle not to each act, but instead as a means of establishing a set of moral rules.

From Textbooks ● Jun. 15, 2022

For utilitarians, the only intrinsic value is happiness.

From Textbooks ● Jun. 15, 2022

According to utilitarians, rules are made to be broken, when you make people happier by breaking them.

From The Guardian ● Apr. 10, 2020

But the utilitarians do not deny that virtue is a thing to be desired.

From Moral Science; a Compendium of Ethics by Bain, Alexander