aimless
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He is also “a quietly desperate nowhere man” who needs money and escape from an aimless, defeated life.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 16, 2026
The "constant delay and aimless stumbling" around the project had made any planned recovery even more "painful, slow and difficult", as the town's experienced salt workers were now long retired or dead, he said.
From Barron's ● Jul. 15, 2026
And that in turn prevents you from aimless or unthinking financial behavior.
From MarketWatch ● Dec. 24, 2025
Architecture was in a funk, aimless and beaten down by the recession of the early and middle 1990s.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 5, 2025
Since the movie houses were now off -limits due to lack of funds, he would have had to drift, bored and aimless, around the business district until it seemed safe to return home.
From "A Confederacy of Dunces" by John Kennedy Toole
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