Constructively
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech adverb
Quick meaning: Constructively is an adverb meaning In a constructive manner.
Meaning
In a constructive manner.
Example Sentences
In vain did his counsel, striving to make out the derangement to be where, in fact, if anywhere, it was, urge that, to hold otherwise, to hold that such a being as Goneril was sane, this was constructively a libel upon womankind.
Under this new agreement, the parties agree to continue to work constructively and in good faith to manage their relationship until they reach a final "just, equitable, honorable and permanent resolution of their territorial differendum."
AVOID THE BLAME GAME. Women who get vindictive or finger-pointy when angry are 31 percent more likely to develop heart problems than those who resolve things more constructively, recent research from Columbia University Medical School in New York City found.
This type of education for domestication, which borders on stupidification, provides no pedagogical spaces for students, as Chomsky insightfully argues in this book, "not to be seen merely as an audience but as part of a community of common concern in which one hopes to participate constructively."
Antonyms for constructively
Common opposites include unconstructively.
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include productively, effectively, usefully, actively, meaningfully, positively.
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