rootless

• I should think it was a genuine taste, for he has that kind of rootless, marginal mind. —  THE ISLAND OF SHEEP
• He looked back at Imrryr and felt a tightness in his throat as he realised that he was truly rootless, now; a renegade and a woman- slayer, though involuntarily the latter.
• The green plants are hornweeds: rootless, almost entirely edible. —  Asimov'sSF,Dec2003
• Booted from their kingdom, the "Jewish people" -- sons and daughters of ancient Judea -- wandered the earth, rootless, where they faced cruel suppression from all corners -- from being forced to toil in slavery under the Egyptians, to the Spanish massacres of the 14th century and Russian pogroms of the 19th, through to the horrors of the Third Reich. —  Dialogic
• And almost ninety years later, the UNDP endorsed Gandhiji's views on greed driven development as "jobless, rootless, ruthless" growth.

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