forceless
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At first Savonarola had little success among the Dominicans, a preaching order, for he was as forceless a speaker as the tyro Demosthenes.
From Time Magazine Archive
These are not the kinds of problems to be handled by subordinates, committees or forceless task forces.
From Time Magazine Archive
A forceless father, a smothering mother, an adolescence strangled with apron strings.
From Time Magazine Archive
Love, only Love her forceless numbers mean; For thou hast left her shrine, Nor olive more, nor vine, Shall gain thy feet to bless the servile scene.
From Bulchevy's Book of English Verse by Quiller-Couch, Arthur Thomas, Sir
At the crossing of the Ny I found quarters at a farm-house owned by a feeble, forceless, gray-bearded, black-eyed man.
From The Boys of '61 or, Four Years of Fighting, Personal Observations with the Army and Navy by Coffin, Charles Carleton
