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Usefully

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use·ful  (ysfl)
adj.
1. Having a beneficial use; serviceable: a useful kitchen gadget.
2. Being of practical use: a useful job; useful members of society.
useful·ly adv.
useful·ness n.
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Adv.1.usefully - in a useful manner; "extra money could be usefully spent on this project"
uselessly - in a useless manner; "the furniture was sitting around uselessly"


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Spies cannot be usefully employed without a certain intuitive sagacity.
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There is in this story abundance of delightful incidents, and all of them usefully applied.
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This illustrious person had very usefully employed his studies, in finding out effectual remedies for all diseases and corruptions to which the several kinds of public administration are subject, by the vices or infirmities of those who govern, as well as by the licentiousness of those who are to obey.
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