adjective
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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The violence is purposeless and impulsive.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Darwinist dogma that asserts life began and developed by a sequence of purposeless random accidents remains a metaphysical belief.
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He felt as though he lived in a purposeless world.
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It is purposeless to try to summarise what was said.
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It is certainly true that more roses are ruined by incorrect or purposeless cutting than any other cause.
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The chief effect is to highlight the horror of the desolate and pre-human world of purposeless suffering.
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When we lay together at night, there was something purposeless in our pleasure.