This seems to have been a motiveless crime: no money was stolen, and nobody had cause to hate the victim.
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Motiveless
Synonyms for "motiveless" (25 found)
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Closest matches (5)
Adjective(1 words)
Strong matches (8)
Related words (12)
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More general
2 entriesdescriptive termpsychological state
More specific
2 entriesmotiveless actmotiveless crime
Collocations
6 entriesapparent motivelessnessevident motivelessnessmotiveless actmotiveless aggressionmotiveless crimemotiveless murder
Inflections
2 entriesmore motivelessmost motiveless
Derivations
2 entriessimilar
1 entriesSample sentences
2 total sentences available.
He was interested in their genuine, yet refined simplicity; and, moreover, the most worn and worldly natures vindicate their humanity by occasional preferences and motiveless likings.
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