forceless
- a word derived from force.
Example Sentences
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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.
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A forceless father, a smothering mother, an adolescence strangled with apron strings.
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These are not the kinds of problems to be handled by subordinates, committees or forceless task forces.
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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