briefless
Americanadjective
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having no brief.
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having no clients, as a lawyer.
adjective
Other Word Forms
- brieflessly adverb
- brieflessness noun
Etymology
Origin of briefless
Example Sentences
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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
A briefless barrister was spending his time at the Courts when his clerk came to him with the news that a man was at his chambers with a brief.
From Ever Heard This? Over Three Hundred Good Stories by Chambers, F. W.
Bissett was a fellow member of the Middle Temple, as contentedly briefless as himself.
From Uncanny Tales by Various
I adventured into the practise of law and went briefless.
From The Portal of Dreams by Buck, Charles Neville
A briefless young lawyer, with a long list of impoverished brothers and sisters, aunts, uncles, and cousins!
From Cruel As The Grave by Southworth, Emma Dorothy Eliza Nevitte
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