will-less
Example Sentences
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Why Gorki wanted to write 2,700 pages about this dull and will-less man is almost as great a mystery as the Moscow trials that disclosed a fantastic story of Gorki's death.*
From Time Magazine Archive
It was reported that 70% of estates administered in court are will-less.
From Time Magazine Archive
These boys and girls were will-less, their speech flat, their gestures vague, their personalities devoid of anger, hope, laughter, enthusiasm, passion, or despair.
From "Black Boy" by Richard Wright
Will what that will-less yearns for;—and for thee Is compass'd Man's chief end!
From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 53, No. 329, March, 1843 by Various
He is, as was shown by his later history, a man subject to overpowering impulses and to fits of will-less brooding.
From The Electra of Euripides Translated into English rhyming verse by Murray, Gilbert
