Thesaurus / purposeless

purposeless

How to use purposeless in a sentence

The key to getting into this state seemed to be the purposeless way in which the day unfolded.

This motion consists almost wholly in apparently purposeless lashing and coiling movements, and continues for many hours.

His mind with all its sternness ever tended to clemency, and his constitutional prudence, or measure, forbade purposeless excess.

I am sure that the English soldiers, thoughtless though they may be, would not stoop to this sort of purposeless outrage.

A cynical, purposeless, brooding life he must live to his last day: there was no healing in all the world for his despair.

As he advanced he perceived that the church grew in size, but to him that deceptive harmony seemed purposeless, reprehensible.

You may live such a life, and quote such poetry, but you don't believe that a man should flow on like a purposeless river.

DUFFELSEDWARD EGGLESTON

Biscuits employed the time thus gained in a fashion apparently purposeless.

SMITH COLLEGE STORIESJOSEPHINE DODGE DASKAM

The noise, the rush, the purposeless activities of existence ashore weary them.

They themselves are random phenomena, like the waves of the sea, moving backward and forward in purposeless flux.

LANGUAGEEDWARD SAPIR

SYNONYM OF THE DAY

OCTOBER 26, 1985