brainless

Example Sentences

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“It just sounds pretty boring,” he says, and pushes a jeering mob of brainless sheep to repeat whatever he says.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 30, 2026

In 1977, after the release of the album Zombie, which satirised government soldiers as obedient, brainless enforcers, his compound in the main city, Lagos, was raided.

From BBC • Jan. 29, 2026

A stunned England woke Sunday to savage criticism after their meek capitulation in the first Ashes Test, branded "brainless" and "damaged" by former greats after their cavalier approach backfired.

From Barron's • Nov. 23, 2025

I'm not saying that bombast is automatically brainless.

From Salon • Apr. 28, 2025

Him too I hate, the same as I hate these brainless budding trees, these brattling birds.

From "Grendel" by John Gardner