loveless

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He is generally described as a loveless old man, but his biographers seem to forget the influences that surrounded his childhood.

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  1. adjective Characterized by an absence of love: a loveless marriage.
  2. adjective Exhibiting or feeling no love; unloving: a loveless glance.
  3. adjective Receiving no love; unloved: a loveless child.

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  • And he was impressed with the way she grappled with the part of Georgiana Cavendish opposite his role as her loveless husband in the period drama. —  ContactMusic Ltd | Latest News
  • Loveless Alone 3: In another loveless, still alone! —  Esato discussion forum
  • An aging woman given to mordant observations on her own now-loveless marriage, her distant son, and her life's work, universally unhailed, she is the kind of mother who's capable of secretly desecrating her daughter-in-law's clothes with magic marker, for spite. —  Critical Mass
  • Will we finish our years as a loveless sham of a marriage?
  • If we accept Seldon's warning that "a soulless, loveless, desiccated education damages children for a lifetime", university is the last chance to stop that happening. —  D'log :: blogging since 2000
 

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/ˈləvlɛs/
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