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purposeless

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The key to getting into this state seemed to be the purposeless way in which the day unfolded.

I watched another three episodes, thinking it might just be a slow start—but no, the amiable, purposeless loafing continues.

Early critics called it "a strange, inartistic story" with "purposeless power."

Early critics called it 'a strange, inartistic story' with 'purposeless power.'

This motion consists almost wholly in apparently purposeless lashing and coiling movements, and continues for many hours.

His mind with all its sternness ever tended to clemency, and his constitutional prudence, or measure, forbade purposeless excess.

I am sure that the English soldiers, thoughtless though they may be, would not stoop to this sort of purposeless outrage.

A cynical, purposeless, brooding life he must live to his last day: there was no healing in all the world for his despair.

As he advanced he perceived that the church grew in size, but to him that deceptive harmony seemed purposeless, reprehensible.

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On this page you'll find 63 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to purposeless, such as: aimless, designless, desultory, drifting, empty, and feckless.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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