Example Sentences

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Siggins played the character Legless Suzi on "American Horror Story: Freak Show," a program on the FX network and was featured in "The Woman with Half a Body," a 2005 documentary about her life.

From Reuters • Dec. 13, 2015

Legless, he was refused permission to take part in the Paralympics and his interview gave some discomfort to our official Chinese minder.

From BBC • Oct. 21, 2015

Legless skinks and a small python can be seen at bottom left of the colour scene above.

From Scientific American • Apr. 1, 2013

He sat in a wheeled chair, waiting for dark, And shivered in his ghastly suit of grey, Legless, sewn short at elbow.

From Poems by Owen, Wilfred

Hence I take Legless to be the same as Lawless, and both to mean "learned in the law," from an ancient ending leis, explained by Foerstemann as "learned."

From Surnames as a Science by Ferguson, Robert