Definitions
Etymologies
- From Middle English sakles, sacless ("innocent"), from Old English saclēas ("free from charge, innocent, safe"), from Proto-Germanic *saka-lausa- (“free from accusation”), equivalent to sake + -less. Cognate with Danish sagesløs ("blameless"), Swedish saklös ("blamesless"), Icelandic saklaus ("innocent"). More at sake, -less. (Wiktionary)
Examples
“` ` Maister Ringan Aikwood Poinders, I do not know what you call sackless, --- but let alone all de oils and de soot dat you say he has, and I will tell you I was dis night robbed of fifty pounds. by your oil and sooty friend, Edies Ochiltree; and he is no more in your barn even now dan I ever shall be in de kingdom of heafen. '”
“Maister Ringan Aikwood Poinders, I do not know what you call sackless, -- but let alone all de oils and de soot dat you say he has, and I will tell you I was dis night robbed of fifty pounds by your oil and sooty friend,”
““Maister Ringan Aikwood Poinders, I do not know what you call sackless, — but let alone all de oils and de soot dat you say he has, and I will tell you I was dis night robbed of fifty pounds by your oil and sooty friend, Edies Ochiltree; and he is no more in your barn even now dan”
“Then stood Regin staring on the earth a long while, and presently thereafter spake from heavy-mood: “Mine own brother hast thou slain, and scarce may I be called sackless of the deed.””
“Then stood Regin staring on the earth a long while, and presently thereafter spake from heavy-mood: "Mine own brother hast thou slain, and scarce may I be called sackless of the deed.”
“Just another example of the impotent sackless dem leadership that lets this a$$hat have any chairmanship or caucus with them.”
“I'll be the first to admit that the Dems are for the most part a bunch of corrupt, inept, sackless weenies but how in the name of God could anyone vote for the Republicans?”
“Enter Maybin, who received a reported $14 million in guarantees while being held sackless in two seasons with the Buffalo Bills.”
The Wall Street Journal: On Paper, Maybin Looks an Awful Lot Like Gholston
“In Ellis's case, he's sackless and has just seven tackles through six games.”
“Notes: After setting a franchise record with three straight sackless games, the Vikings had six on Sunday.”
The Huffington Post: Brett Favre Ignites Big Comeback In Minnesota
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘sackless’.
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The -less Said...
hopeless, bootless, groundless, luckless, artless, feckless, hapless, joyless, useless, penniless, childless, peerless and 310 more...
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Desserts of Random Palavery
Another of my Random Palavery lists, still an eclectic listing of terms that catch my eye and ear. It can't be helped. I am, (as a former partner phrased it) a word-bird.
chablis, ervy, keek, armiger, argand lamp, arblast, milch-cow, cow-calf units, durrus, tom noddy, low-bell, cargo cult and 139 more...
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Existential crisis
incontinuous, unalienable, existentialism, epiphany, nighness, edify, sackless, hylozoism, intermental, unfettered, absolutistic, posthumously and 4 more...
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hernesheir (adj., Yorkshire dial.) - foolish, ineffectual, simple, stupid. From ON saklauss "innocent", "not guilty". Aug 6, 2009