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(adjective) producing a beneficial effect; remedial / (adjective) promoting health; curative

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salutary



Yet since it doesn’t quite know what it wants to say, this salutary didacticism is really a lost cause.

i thought it meant like perfunctory oops

—p.341 Jessica Biel’s Hand (335) by A S Hamrah
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9 months ago


This Japanese military tale relates the story of a corporal of an elite regiment who plays a kind of Burmese harp during the Japanese invasion of Burma in 1945, and evokes salutary, peaceful, amazing results.

—p.242 HURRAH FOR THE JAPANESE CINEMA (239) by François Truffaut
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3 months, 1 week ago


She preferred to think of her current boyfriendless state as salutary and head-clearing.

—p.29 by Jeffrey Eugenides
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2 months, 4 weeks ago


shaped by an event that provokes a salutary shock in her

—p.247 by Michel Houellebecq
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5 months, 3 weeks ago


Reading poetry has the salutary effect on me of forcing me to read, and think, at a different pace than the rest of my life demands.

—p.24 by Matthew Zapruder
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2 years, 9 months ago