mechanical
adjective
having to do with machinery.
mechanicalness
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a word derived from
mechanical.
Example Sentences
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I peered into the dizzying abyss below and Honnold was about 300 feet from the top, without a rope, moving with insectlike mechanicalness.
From New York Times ● Jun. 16, 2012
There is no production in us now, only sordid and foul mechanicalness.'
From Women in Love by D. H. (David Herbert) Lawrence
I ask for no pedantic adherence, with monastic mechanicalness, to hours and times, and forms of petitions.
From Expositions of Holy Scripture by Alexander Maclaren
They had to work hard, much harder than before, the work was terrible and heart-breaking in its mechanicalness.
From Women in Love by D. H. (David Herbert) Lawrence
She had continued thinking of her son every hour, but with a resignation that was drying her tears and permitting her to continue the deliberate mechanicalness of existence.
From Mare Nostrum (Our Sea) A Novel by Charlotte Brewster Jordan
