utilitarian

Despite the large venue and packed-in audience, Sykes created an intimate club vibe, walking onstage in a utilitarian jumpsuit and instantly bonding with the audience over just how weird things have become in present-day America.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 13, 2026

The plane’s posh interior will be notably more opulent than the current Air Force One, which is known for its smaller dated domestic business-class seats and utilitarian conference rooms.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 1, 2026

For you, goods and services serve a utilitarian function.

From MarketWatch ● Apr. 17, 2026

Critics, meanwhile, argue his advice was narrowly utilitarian and ultimately unhelpful to society.

From BBC ● Mar. 27, 2026

They were set in small grassless plots littered with broken things, bricks, planks, crockery, things of a once utilitarian value.

From "The Sound and the Fury" by William Faulkner

As Bostrom writes, "for standard utilitarians, priority number one, two, three, and four should … be to reduce existential risk," the fifth being to colonize space.

From Salon ● Nov. 20, 2022

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

From Salon ● Jul. 17, 2022

If it turns out to be an extremely costly intervention, however, utilitarians might not support it on the grounds that only the very wealthy would be able to access it.

From Textbooks ● Jun. 15, 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

He understands, better than anyone else, how absurd the philosophical utilitarians are with their axiom that everyone pursues his own happiness.

From Visions and Revisions A Book of Literary Devotions by Powys, John Cowper