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

Tra Jones, general manager of the new amphitheater and a Long Beach native, said he’s striving to make it feel less stopgap and utilitarian than FivePoint.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 4, 2026

For you, goods and services serve a utilitarian function.

From MarketWatch ● Apr. 17, 2026

Their purpose was religious, rather than civic or utilitarian.

From "History of Art, Volume 1" by H.W. Janson

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

From Salon ● Jul. 17, 2022

For instance, utilitarians would support the use of genetic modification to eliminate disease and disability.

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

And I suppose the pleasure of kings and the peace of utilitarians ought fairly to outweigh the disappointments of the touring impression-seeker.

From A Midsummer Drive Through the Pyrenees by Edwin Asa Dix