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Meanings of purely utilitarian in English

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Usage of purely utilitarian in English
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Nothing outside the dictates of poetry could be manufactured; nothing purely utilitarian.
Drawing Down the Moon
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Such knowing is depreciated, if not despised, as purely utilitarian, lacking in cultural significance.
Democracy and Education: An Introduction to the Philosophy of Ed...
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But throughout these are purely utilitarian, an unhappy necessity for the preservation of human welfare.
Problems of Conduct: An Introductory Survey of Ethics
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The corridors in which he had first found himself were drab and undecorated, purely utilitarian.
The Collected Stories of Arthur C. Clarke
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Two or three baseboard outlets are desirable for attaching decorative or even purely utilitarian lamps.
Artificial Light: Its Influence upon Civilization
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Personally, I'm turned off by the idea of transforming means into a hyper-rational, purely utilitarian experience.
Wired
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Ana chose to put on a simple blouse and skirt, not elaborate, but not purely utilitarian either.
Jem
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Each family's abiding place was purely utilitarian.
Burned Bridges
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But the motive was purely utilitarian.
Two Summers in Guyenne: A Chronicle of the Wayside and Waterside
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So far for purely utilitarian considerations.
A Dream of the North Sea
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Bonnie's kitchen was purely utilitarian, with a Formica dining set and cheap discount-store cubbies for the twins' schoolbags.
Bake sale murder
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But its central point was Max's detached insistence that we make marriage over into a purely utilitarian affair.
How To Write Special Feature Articles / A Handbook for Reporters...
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Before passing to the other rooms of the house, we will pause to consider a more purely utilitarian group.
How to Prepare and Serve a Meal; and Interior Decoration
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It is also true that "rights" are not primitive and transcendent; their existence rests upon purely utilitarian grounds.
Problems of Conduct: An Introductory Survey of Ethics
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It serves: first, purely utilitarian ends, and is a means; secondly, the purposes of culture, and is an end in itself.
International Language, Past, Present & Future / With Specimens ...
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He is afraid, too, that the neglect of philosophy by science may cause the latter to develop along purely utilitarian lines.
Modern French Philosophy: a Study of the Development Since Comte
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