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utile

adjective as in functional

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Even if National Rally qualifies for the second round in a large number of constituencies, voters could choose to adopt “le vote utile” - tactical voting - to keep the party out.

From BBC

To negative the operation of the general law, it would be necessary to show that the dominium utile, as distinct from the sovereignty, was all that accrued by such settlements.

In this establishment the utile et dulci are so happily blended, that the accomplished guest can find no cause of complaint.

It will be seen that the Renaissance was in closer accord with Horace than with Aristotle, in requiring for the most part the utile as well as the dulce in poetry.

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

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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