masterless
Americanadjective
Example Sentences
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After stealing a letter containing secret information early in the game, the player’s ronin, or masterless samurai, must decide which faction most deserves it.
From New York Times
Framed as the killer, Ogami is ordered to commit hara-kiri, but instead takes to the countryside as a ronin — a masterless samurai — seeking revenge.
From Washington Post
It seems unlikely that Christie will be content to continue wandering the earth like a masterless samurai, a ronin.
From New York Times
Alejandro is cousin both to the masterless swordsmen of Japanese cinema and to the lone gunslingers of the postwar Hollywood western.
From New York Times
Tolstoy became a favorite, as did the economist Thorstein Veblen, whose vision of the “masterless man,” Mr. Lang told a student interviewer at Swarthmore, inspired his fascination with enterprise and innovation.
From New York Times
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