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

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

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

My costume for traveling was utilitarian if a trifle bizarre.

From "Travels with Charley in Search of America" by John Steinbeck

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

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

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

From The Guardian ● Apr. 10, 2020

In answer, let us beard the very king of the race of the conventionalists and utilitarians in his forbidding den.

From The Will to Doubt An essay in philosophy for the general thinker by Lloyd, Alfred H.