force
noun
physical power or strength possessed by a living being.
forceless
-
a word derived from
force.
Example Sentences
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A forceless father, a smothering mother, an adolescence strangled with apron strings.
From Time Magazine Archive
At first Savonarola had little success among the Dominicans, a preaching order, for he was as forceless a speaker as the tyro Demosthenes.
From Time Magazine Archive
These are not the kinds of problems to be handled by subordinates, committees or forceless task forces.
From Time Magazine Archive
The operation of force could furnish no evidence of the existence of forceless matter.
From Was Man Created? by Henry A. (Henry Augustus) Mott
Both had the same incapacity of unlaboured and forceless art, the same insensibility to passion, the same inability to rise above mere humours and contemporary oddities into the region of universal poetry.
From A History of Elizabethan Literature by George Saintsbury
