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  • adjective Without intention.

Etymologies

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intention +‎ -less

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Examples

  • When he began to beat about the bush, to talk insincerities, and to lose himself in intentionless plausibilities, she waited with serene patience for him to have done, and met him on their habitual ground of frankness and reality as if he had not left it.

    April Hopes William Dean Howells 1878

  • By any grand ideal tried, intentionless, the whole a nothing,

    Leaves of Grass Walt Whitman 1855

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