purposeless

Example Sentences

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“So, in a way, my life seems purposeless now,” Wright continues.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 14, 2024

People who are depressed and suicidal feel helpless, powerless, useless, worthless, meaningless and purposeless.

From Salon • Jul. 11, 2022

In a crisis of this magnitude, finding the emotional space to care about a single death can feel purposeless, unnecessary.

From The Guardian • May 2, 2020

“The King,” a movie about the dissolute youth and unlikely rise of English monarch Henry V, is a handsome, intriguing, strangely purposeless affair.

From Washington Post • Oct. 23, 2019

“I have seen the dark: dark stacked upon dark. I have seen such purposeless sorrow. I have seen fear, and dread. I have seen death. Oh, Christopher, the death!”

From "Impossible Creatures" by Katherine Rundell