Both Uses of
utilitarian
in
Hard Times
- With his unbending, utilitarian, matter-of-fact face, he hardened her again; and the moment shot away into the plumbless depths of the past, to mingle with all the lost opportunities that are drowned there.†
Chpt 1.15
- Utilitarian economists, skeletons of schoolmasters, Commissioners of Fact, genteel and used-up infidels, gabblers of many little dog's-eared creeds, the poor you will have always with you.†
Chpt 2.6 *
Definition:
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(utilitarian as in: utilitarian furniture) concerned with usefulness rather than beauty, style, or philosophical purity -- with the goal of increasing general happiness or well-being