Behaviorally speaking, burning money is usually a purely negative act.
However, from the opening paragraph the article made it clear that the intended picture of Lincoln was purely negative.
Man is so constituted that health is a purely negative state.
Like most official thinking, the Group Captain's was purely negative.
The economic effect of these elements in actu has a purely negative value.
Conflict should not be regarded as a purely negative issue.
The safeguard is the purely negative character of the presentation.
But this is a purely negative answer to the increasingly pressing question of Japan's role in the world.
The only political declaration which, so far as I know, he has ever made in print is a purely negative one.
It is also worth emphasising once again that nationalist feeling can be purely negative.