briefless
Americanadjective
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having no brief.
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having no clients, as a lawyer.
adjective
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After a brief and briefless stab at the law in Manhattan, his Transcript record got him a job with Edward Bok for a spirited, 18-month campaign against quack patent medicines in the Ladies' Home Journal.
From Time Magazine Archive
They are sleeping partners, briefless barristers, professors of professions which do not exist.
From American World Policies by Walter E. Weyl
Dublin Castle is regarded as the haven of hope for all younger sons without talent and briefless barristers hungering for a regular income.
From The Viceroys of Ireland by Charles O'Mahony
We must never in England form a false estimate of the French Canadian, because a few briefless lawyers or saddle-bag medical men urged them into rebellion.
From Canada and the Canadians Volume I by Richard Henry Bonnycastle
The usual groups of the briefless were gathered around the stoves.
From Tales from "Blackwood," Volume 2 by Various
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