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forceless

  • a word derived from force.

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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

A forceless father, a smothering mother, an adolescence strangled with apron strings.

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

It quits the body with much reluctance, leaving that warm and vigorous investiture for a chill and forceless existence.

From The Destiny of the Soul A Critical History of the Doctrine of a Future Life by Alger, William Rounseville

These missiles, thrown by a forceless arm, did not make half their intended journey.

From The Dead Command From the Spanish Los Muertos Mandan by Douglas, Frances