forceless
Example Sentences
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A forceless father, a smothering mother, an adolescence strangled with apron strings.
From Time Magazine Archive
These are not the kinds of problems to be handled by subordinates, committees or forceless task forces.
From Time Magazine Archive
At first Savonarola had little success among the Dominicans, a preaching order, for he was as forceless a speaker as the tyro Demosthenes.
From Time Magazine Archive
These missiles, thrown by a forceless arm, did not make half their intended journey.
From The Dead Command From the Spanish Los Muertos Mandan by Douglas, Frances
Darting one fiery glance toward her forceless husband, sitting humped up over the stove, his head supported on his hands, she exclaimed, "What does this mean?"
From Eventide A Series of Tales and Poems by Afton, Effie
