The most difficult crime to track is the one which is purposeless.
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Purposeless
Synonyms for "purposeless" (72 found)
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Closest matches (15)
Strong matches (21)
Related words (36)
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Antonyms
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1 entriesderived
2 entriesderived from
3 entriesrelated to
2 entriessimilar
13 entriesTranslations
13 translations across 11 languages.
Ancient Greek
1 entries- εἰκαῖος adj (without purpose)
Bulgarian
1 entries- безцелен adj (without purpose)
Dutch
1 entries- doelloos adj (without purpose)
Esperanto
1 entries- sencela adj (without purpose)
Finnish
1 entries- tarkoitukseton adj (without purpose)
Icelandic
1 entries- tilgangslaus adj (without purpose)
Kazakh
1 entries- бағытсыз adj (without purpose)
Lithuanian
1 entries- betikslis adj (without purpose)
Māori
2 entries- karore adj (without purpose)
- makihoi adj (without purpose)
Polish
1 entries- bezcelowy adj (without purpose)
Welsh
2 entries- diamcan adj (without purpose)
- dibwrpas adj (without purpose)
Sample sentences
5 total sentences available.
It's important to live with a sense of intention instead of purposeless habit.
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As soon as I arrived I made an attempt to find my host, but the two or three people of whom I asked his whereabouts stared at me in such an amazed way, and denied so vehemently any knowledge of his movements, that I slunk off in the direction of the cocktail table—the only place in the garden where a single man could linger without looking purposeless and alone.
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It's purposeless to rank people by their ability to memorize.
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