utile
Example Sentences
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But the words pleasant and useful suggest a possible way forward: They invoke the Roman poet Horace’s two-pronged injunction for art—that it be both dulce et utile.
From Slate • Mar. 20, 2017
He had always cherished the fact that his wife made objects not only attractive but utile, which should have made them more valuable, not less.
From Salon • Apr. 18, 2011
His ambivalence seems to surface in the range of diction: the arty "utile," the cliché "arm and a leg," the vulgar rhetorical question.
From Salon • Apr. 18, 2011
The latest examples of the utile are handsomely represented.
From Time Magazine Archive
I don't doubt that we've made up our minds to make away with each other; but why not laugh too and unite utile dulci?
From Fathers and Children by Turgenev, Ivan Sergeevich
