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If I had wanted to stop you it would have been only too easy — however, I felt it would be instructive to let them see …. (source)instructive = informative (helping to teach)
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Her comportment as a mother had always been instructive rather than cherishing.† (source)instructive = informative
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It was always instructive to see how people would take them.† (source)
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I thought you might find it instructive.† (source)
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Mrs. Walker would read us an instructive passage from the Bible.† (source)
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It wasn't a way of talking that I was used to—possibly I had never talked that way before— but I knew I could get used to it in a heartbeat, that here I had stumbled on a prerogative of parenthood I hadn't thought of before (I'd thought only how I would be tender and affectionate and patient and instructive).† (source)
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And very instructive.† (source)instructive = informative
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My father, before he met an unfortunate accident ...my father was a great admirer of Julius Streicher for this reason—he applauded the way in which Herr Streicher has satirized so instructively this degenerate trait in the Jewish character.† (source)instructively = in a manner that provides information
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These statistics, however accidental and therefore uninstructive they may appear, as they have a certain completeness, have a certain value also.† (source)uninstructive = not informativestandard prefix: The prefix "un-" in uninstructive means not and reverses the meaning of instructive. This is the same pattern you see in words like unhappy, unknown, and unlucky.
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And under the pressing fingers and the quiet instructive voice, she would.† (source)instructive = informative
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Not the head," he added instructively, "for the blade may slip off easy.† (source)instructively = in a manner that provides information
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It was to be both instructive and true, she said.† (source)instructive = informative
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On her first day of the two months' preliminary training, Briony's humiliation in front of the class had been instructive.† (source)
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Let's table that thought for a second, because that's instructive, the fact that you were aware of the groups, but didn't seek them out.† (source)
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I have wondered, incidentally: does Our Father have his Bibles so entirely in mind that he can select an instructive verse and calculate backward to the one-hundredth previous?† (source)
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Well, sir, I was reading a story out loud to them from the Bible, and I thought instead it might be more instructive maybe — to sort of — well, to act it out, and —† (source)
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