Purposeless
['pɝpəsləs]
Definition
(a.) Having no purpose or result; objectless.
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Examples
- It would furnish another reason for Wrayburn's purposeless walks, and it might be. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- They had lounged away in a poverty-stricken, purposeless, accidental manner, quite natural and unimpeachable. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
- The most difficult crime to track is the one which is purposeless. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
- Mrs. Pryor, I should like to go from home, but not on any purposeless excursion or visit. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- The old man, in aiming a purposeless blow at Mr. Guppy, or at nothing, feebly swings himself round and comes with his face against the wall. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- Petty thefts, wanton assaults, purposeless outrage--to the man who held the clue all could be worked into one connected whole. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
- Now this is not purposeless. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
- Or he might become just indifferent, purposeless, dissipated, momentaneous. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
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