Definition of Serviceable
Serviceable
Doing service; promoting happiness, interest, advantage, or any good; useful to any end; adapted to any good end use; beneficial; advantageous.
Prepared for rendering service; capable of, or fit for, the performance of duty; hence, active; diligent.
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Serviceable Quotations
Quotation is a serviceable substitute for wit.
Oscar Wilde
The waking mind is the least serviceable in the arts.
Henry Miller
Cleverness is serviceable for everything, sufficient for nothing.
Henri Frederic Amiel
There are a great many men valued in society who have nothing to recommend them but serviceable vices.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
The name and pretense of virtue is as serviceable to self-interest as are real vices.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Hunter can write a melody and stuff like that, but his forte is lyrics. He can write a serviceable melody to hang his lyrics on, and sometimes he comes up with something really nice.
Jerry Garcia
The ability to quote is a serviceable substitute for wit.
W. Somerset Maugham
She had a pretty gift for quotation, which is a serviceable substitute for wit.
W. Somerset Maugham
A virtue to be serviceable must, like gold, be alloyed with some commoner, but more durable alloy.
Samuel Butler
The real questions are: Does it solve a problem? Is it serviceable? How is it going to look in ten years?
Charles Eames
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