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constructively

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con·struc·tive  (kn-strktv)
adj.
1. Serving to improve or advance; helpful: constructive criticism.
2. Of or relating to construction; structural.
3. Law Based on an interpretation; not directly expressed.
con·structive·ly adv.
con·structive·ness n.
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Adv.1.constructively - in a constructive manner; "it is my task to look critically and constructively at the flaws and the failures"
Translations
constructively [kənˈstrʌktɪvlɪ] ADV → constructivamente
constructively [kənˈstrʌktɪvli] adv
[work together, talk] → de manière constructive; [use] → de manière constructive
constructively
adv → konstruktiv; critical → auf konstruktive Art; he suggested, not very constructively, that … → er machte den nicht gerade konstruktiven Vorschlag, zu …
constructively [kənˈstrʌktɪvlɪ] adv → costruttivamente
constructively [kənˈstrʌktɪvlɪ] adv → costruttivamente


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The poorest paid architect, engineer, general, author, sculptor, painter, lecturer, advocate, legislator, actor, preacher, singer is constructively in heaven when he is at work; and as for the musician with the fiddle-bow in his hand who sits in the midst of a great orchestra with the ebbing and flowing tides of divine sound washing over him -- why, certainly, he is at work, if you wish to call it that, but lord, it's a sarcasm just the same.
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He had undergone some strange experiences in his absence; he had seen the virtual Faustina in the literal Cornelia, a spiritual Lucretia in a corporeal Phryne; he had thought of the woman taken and set in the midst as one deserving to be stoned, and of the wife of Uriah being made a queen; and he had asked himself why he had not judged Tess constructively rather than biographically, by the will rather than by the deed?
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Perhaps we constructively BREAK the command to rest, because the resting we do is in most cases only a name, and not a fact.
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