causeless

Example Sentences

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When our friends pass from our sight and we lament, that lamentation is needless and causeless.

From Time Magazine Archive

He tired easily, slept fitfully, found himself a prey to causeless fears.

From Time Magazine Archive

The great Anna Karenina, for instance, forced Vronsky into a certain position by the causeless jealousy of a maniac—yet that position was the only real solution to their problem, and it was the inevitable solution.

From "The Once and Future King" by T. H. White

As we shook hands he burst into a loud, seemingly causeless laugh; and as he guffawed I could not tell whether his mirth was directed at me or was meant to hide his uneasiness.

From "Black Boy" by Richard Wright

Quite persuaded of this, Alice takes her candle, determined to scold that troublesome old thing, against whom she is fired with the irritation that attends on a causeless fright.

From Checkmate by Le Fanu, Joseph Sheridan