(adjective) producing a beneficial effect; remedial / (adjective) promoting health; curative
Like James, he saw salutary effects in how automation organized workers.
what Norman Mailer was going on about when he said that the attack would prove salutary, because only ceaseless warfare could maintain the virility of the US male
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But to compare little things with large is a salutary habit; the little thing tells you a little about the large thing
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
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.
The touchstone can be seen during the field labourer’s ‘revolt’ in 1830, when The Times (Cobbett’s ‘BLOODY OLD TIMES’) led the demand for salutary examples to be made of the rioters
She preferred to think of her current boyfriendless state as salutary and head-clearing.
shaped by an event that provokes a salutary shock in her
Captain Girling informed them that, as a result of what they now saw, war had become unthinkable: "In that way, it has been salutary."
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.