Their deaths were sobering not merely because of the searingly unbearable wrench of losing those two wonderful people, but because it left me exposed as rudderless.
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Rudderless
Synonyms for "rudderless" (7 found)
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Adjective(3 words)
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6 translations across 4 languages.
Dutch
1 entries- roekeloos adj (without a rudder, unsteerable, without guidance)
German
3 entries- führungslos adj (without a rudder, unsteerable, without guidance)
- orientierungslos adj (without a rudder, unsteerable, without guidance)
- steuerlos adj (without a rudder, unsteerable, without guidance)
Norwegian
1 entries- uten ror adj (without a rudder, unsteerable, without guidance)
Spanish
1 entries- desnortado adj (without a rudder, unsteerable, without guidance)
Sample sentences
2 total sentences available.
As Christian Wolmar said in RAIL 990, our railway is "leaderless and rudderless", and drifting inexorably towards the rocks of total chaos.
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