senseless

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Federal opposition leader Pierre Poilievre called it a "senseless act of violence."

From Barron's • Feb. 11, 2026

Whether with an old-fashioned one-case-per-episode or a more sprawling multistrand story, quaint or violent, historic or modern, the birthplace of Agatha Christie understands that we all need stories that make sense of seemingly senseless acts.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 23, 2025

WHO director-general Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus described the attack as "senseless" as he repeated calls for a ceasefire.

From BBC • Dec. 10, 2025

Never mind: Mr. Schwarzenegger’s presence here is as senseless as everything else.

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 13, 2025

“This is the sentence you’ll be diagramming,” she said to us all, and wrote it out: You blocks, you stones, you worse than senseless things!

From "The Wednesday Wars" by Gary D. Schmidt