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Meanings of senseless in inglés
Serving no useful purpose; having no excuse for being.
Related terms
(Of especially persons) lacking sense or understanding or judgment.
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Examples for "wasted"
Examples for "wasted"
1
But each year hundreds of thousands of tonnes are lost or wasted.
2
Time is wasted when both sides in debate employ the same tactics.
3
Every second that passed, every second they wasted, he thought of Lizzie.
4
He speaks the way he designs product: not a single wasted word.
5
That small debacle alone wasted almost three million pounds of taxpayers' money.
1
These advances would have been pointless without something much more fundamental: water.
2
Good intentions and bad intentions wash together, pointless over so much time.
3
For a start it's pointless judging attendances this early in the year.
4
Having a border poll in the next five years is simply pointless.
5
The work was laborious and pointless, as far as Aylaen could see.
1
Conclusions: Although highly sensitive, imaging is superfluous if an olive is palpable.
2
And yet the wealth of superfluous loveliness in the world condemns pessimism.
3
Migration of an older sci-fi term for an author's superfluous research material.
4
They're superfluous and leave thousands of uselessly downloaded JPGs in their wake.
5
Such a reservation in favor of his Majesty seemed a superfluous sarcasm.
1
The most difficult crime to track is the one which is purposeless.
2
Haphazardly directed by Hester Chillingworth, the action underlining the text feels purposeless.
3
Once he arose to another of his purposeless circles through the woods.
4
Nor was the recovery we sought merely a purposeless whirring of machinery.
5
What beauty there is is in large part inadvertent, purposeless, and unadvertised.
1
There is no superfluous ornament in his orations, nothing tawdry, nothing otiose.
2
Compare the supreme being of the Caribs, beneficent, otiose, unadored.
3
Women with otiose husbands have a task to preserve friendship.
4
There is usually a supreme Maker who is, in some cases, moral, in others otiose.
5
We should receive this conclusion with an otiose faith.
Usage of senseless in inglés
1
Ask her a sensible question and you're now guaranteed a senseless answer.
2
Governor Mark Dayton said in a statement: I deplore this senseless violence.
3
I thought this encapsulated the intense pain that such senseless violence causes.
4
Cadorna's judgement on the assaults on Mrzli was succinct: 'heroic but senseless'.
5
Grettir kicked two of them in the ears and they fell senseless.
6
Within minutes, he'd broken through her resolve and was kissing her senseless.
7
Our thoughts are with their families & everyone enduring another senseless tragedy.
8
Lord Montfort looked round; Ferdinand Armine was lying senseless on the sofa.
9
War always seems senseless, but we don't even know why they're hostile.
10
I fell senseless, amidst the wreck of falling stones, plaster; and furniture.
11
He took a step forward, raising his hand to strike her senseless.
12
Australia mourns with America tonight after shocking senseless attack in Las Vegas.
13
And then she sank senseless at the feet of the older woman.
14
In another moment, Geordie was lying gored and senseless on the heather.
15
Immaterial; it is a senseless question, because the Krinpit have no eyes.
16
The next moment he fell forward senseless and rolled to the ground.
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Senseless across language varieties
United Kingdom
Common
United States of America
Common
Ireland
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