purposeless

Example Sentences

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“So, in a way, my life seems purposeless now,” Wright continues.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 14, 2024

People who are depressed and suicidal feel helpless, powerless, useless, worthless, meaningless and purposeless.

From Salon • Jul. 11, 2022

In a crisis of this magnitude, finding the emotional space to care about a single death can feel purposeless, unnecessary.

From The Guardian • May 2, 2020

The backboards have a bare, blank, dead, purposeless look.

From Washington Post • Apr. 11, 2020

What they feared even more, Celia realized later, was that passion might spare them entirely, that they’d die conventionally, smug and purposeless, having never savored its blackness.

From "Dreaming in Cuban" by Cristina García