Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- In a way that is purposeless.
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Examples
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At forty-five her life is objectlessly spasmodic, the old family-habit of talking of self and the family-fetish of discussing sickness have honeycombed her character and made her hopelessly tiresome.
Our Nervous Friends — Illustrating the Mastery of Nervousness Robert S. Carroll
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The arroyo's water slipped ceaselessly, objectlessly away from beneath her strained vision, smooth, suave, even, effortless, like the process of some unhurried and mighty mechanism.
Success A Novel Samuel Hopkins Adams 1914
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