All 4 Uses of
speculative
in
Babbitt
- The room displayed a modest and pleasant color-scheme, after one of the best standard designs of the decorator who "did the interiors" for most of the speculative-builders' houses in Zenith.
Chpt 2 *speculative = without certainty of payment
- Yet his eventual importance to mankind was perhaps lessened by his large and complacent ignorance of all architecture save the types of houses turned out by speculative builders; all landscape gardening save the use of curving roads, grass, and six ordinary shrubs; and all the commonest axioms of economics.
Chpt 4
- It was a speculative venture to call on the Rieslings; interesting and sometimes disconcerting.
Chpt 10speculative = with much uncertainty
- Babbitt was an official delegate; another was Cecil Rountree, whom Babbitt admired for his picaresque speculative building, and hated for his social position, for being present at the smartest dances on Royal Ridge.
Chpt 13speculative = without certainty of payment
Definition:
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(speculative as in: a speculative venture) done with uncertainty--often a risky investment for profit