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Meanings of purposeless in English

Serving no useful purpose; having no excuse for being.

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Usage of purposeless in English
1
The most difficult crime to track is the one which is purposeless.
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes and The Memoirs of Sherlock Ho...
2
Haphazardly directed by Hester Chillingworth, the action underlining the text feels purposeless.
The Guardian
3
Once he arose to another of his purposeless circles through the woods.
The Silent Places
4
Nor was the recovery we sought merely a purposeless whirring of machinery.
State of the Union Addresses
5
What beauty there is is in large part inadvertent, purposeless, and unadvertised.
The botany of desire: a plant's-eye view of the world
6
The great house had never seemed so silent, so empty, so purposeless.
The Shadow of the East
7
The isles were burning, sinking, their keel roots writhing in purposeless pain.
The Hyperion Cantos
8
My life, so far, has been full of change and somewhat purposeless.
Story of Chester Lawrence / Being the Completed Account of One w...
9
How does his Japanese nationality elucidate an utterly useless and purposeless murder?
The Stowmarket Mystery; Or, A Legacy of Hate
10
Will your soul not lie bereft and purposeless should that day come?
The darkest road
11
Ah, now you come to the object of this apparently purposeless journey.
The Sword Maker
12
This crazy, purposeless life I had led as Bear would be over.
A dog's purpose
13
The handwritten message was very brief-onlyseven letters long-andadmittedly looked entirely purposeless.
Inferno
14
He walked slowly along the endless roads and terraces in a purposeless way.
Charlotte's Inheritance
15
We continued in the same purposeless fashion for a moment or so longer.
African Camp Fires
16
There he was, purposeless in life and purposeless out of it.
Twelve Stories and a Dream
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