pragmatical

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Sometimes the examples were saturated, as in the introductory song “Jellicle Cats,” which mentions practical cats, dramatical cats, pragmatical cats, fanatical cats, and so on, one after the other.

From Slate • Dec. 20, 2019

As a scientific man of God, he is shrewd, erudite, pragmatical.

From Time Magazine Archive

Truly a melodramatic story, long drawn out by Tolstoy in psychological analysis and pragmatical moralizing, but in this opera retold with truly theatrical effectiveness in only four episodes.

From Time Magazine Archive

Yet few readers will deny that Heiden has made an ingenious, readable, shocking case for his "pragmatical and mechanistically minded modern man, product of mass education, whose sole criterion is: Will it work?"

From Time Magazine Archive

The Dean deaf and fretting; the lady’s maid awkward and clumsy; Robert lazy and forgetful; William a pragmatical, ignorant, and conceited puppy; Robin and nurse the two great and only supports of the family.

From Ireland in the Days of Dean Swift Irish Tracts, 1720 to 1734 by Daly, J. Bowles (John Bowles)