loveless

Example Sentences

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What used to be an alliance of kindred souls is viewed by both sides today as a marriage of convenience, loveless and lacking basic trust.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 15, 2026

At first, the song is one big eye-roll: Just shut up and admit the truth, Chappell insists, before you get trapped in a loveless, heterosexual marriage of convenience.

From BBC • Sep. 13, 2024

Celebrities have remained in loveless, business-driven marriages since the concept of royalty was invented.

From Salon • Oct. 15, 2023

Anxious residents scan social media for videos and other clues to gauge the temperature of relations between the two generals, described by one foreign official as “a loveless marriage where they hate each other’s guts.”

From New York Times • Apr. 6, 2023

The message of the book is that the Iks have transformed themselves into an irreversibly disagreeable collection of unattached, brutish creatures, totally selfish and loveless, in response to the dismantling of their traditional culture.

From "The Lives of a Cell" by Lewis Thomas