force
noun
physical power or strength possessed by a living being.
forceless
-
a word derived from
force.
Example Sentences
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These are not the kinds of problems to be handled by subordinates, committees or forceless task forces.
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
A forceless father, a smothering mother, an adolescence strangled with apron strings.
From Time Magazine Archive
At the crossing of the Ny I found quarters at a farm-house owned by a feeble, forceless, gray-bearded, black-eyed man.
From The Boys of '61 or, Four Years of Fighting, Personal Observations with the Army and Navy by Charles Carleton Coffin
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 William Rounseville Alger
