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con·struc·tive (k

n-str

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.

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

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