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instructive
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  • I thought you might find it instructive.†  (source)
  • Mrs. Walker would read us an instructive passage from the Bible.†  (source)
  • 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
  • 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
  • These statistics, however accidental and therefore uninstructive they may appear, as they have a certain completeness, have a certain value also.†  (source)
    uninstructive = not informative
    standard 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.
  • And under the pressing fingers and the quiet instructive voice, she would.†  (source)
    instructive = informative
  • Not the head," he added instructively, "for the blade may slip off easy.†  (source)
    instructively = in a manner that provides information
  • It was to be both instructive and true, she said.†  (source)
    instructive = informative
  • On her first day of the two months' preliminary training, Briony's humiliation in front of the class had been instructive.†  (source)
  • 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)
  • 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)
  • 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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