soulless

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  1. adjective Lacking sensitivity or the capacity for deep feeling.

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  • It gave forth a hollow, soulless, and lugubrious squeak, utterly out of proportion to the vital force expended, yet I felt that I had triumphed, and detected a new expression of awe and admiration on the faces of my flock I don't see how she done it," I heard one freckled-faced boy exclaim, confidingly to another; "with a hull button in thar Who put the button in the horn?" —  Cape Cod Folks
  • Students miss the soul of Bach because of the soulless, mechanical way in which they deface his legacy to them His "Twelve Little Preludes" alone contain the materials for an entire system of music. —  For Every Music Lover A Series of Practical Essays on Music
  • Brick walls rose high above the water!--soulless walls, staring through hundreds of windows as troubled and dull as the eyes of over-fed brutes. —  The Nigger Of The "Narcissus" A Tale Of The Forecastle
  • By day and by night I was surrounded with influence intended to beguile me from the past, to narcotize memory, to make me in reality the heartless, soulless, scoffing creature that I certainly seem. —  Infelice
  • But," he grew flippant again, "to marry one of those nose-in-the-air, soulless, school-teacher prudes--Never! —  The Title Market
 

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  1. from Middle English *soulles, from Anglo-Saxon sāwlleas, sāwolleás, soulless, lifeless, irrational, from sāwol, soul, life, + -leás, English -less.
 

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/ˈsoʊllɛs/
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