forceless
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A forceless father, a smothering mother, an adolescence strangled with apron strings.
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These are not the kinds of problems to be handled by subordinates, committees or forceless task forces.
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At first Savonarola had little success among the Dominicans, a preaching order, for he was as forceless a speaker as the tyro Demosthenes.
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A forceless, nerveless maiden aunt is about the only antecedent we see much of.
From Taken Alive by Roe, Edward Payson
It quits the body with much reluctance, leaving that warm and vigorous investiture for a chill and forceless existence.
From The Destiny of the Soul A Critical History of the Doctrine of a Future Life by Alger, William Rounseville