motiveless
- a word derived from motive.
Example Sentences
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We now understand, more clearly than in the 1950s, that the consequences of human action on a global scale are rather like Godzilla: huge, unknowable, motiveless and not easily stopped.
From Scientific American ● Nov. 3, 2023
Mr Blunt said: "This appears to be a completely motiveless, random, senseless, inexplicable incident."
From BBC ● May 16, 2022
Some resistance was more overtly political; the critic Elaine Showalter, on Twitter, decried a plotline of the “saintly academic hero tormented by motiveless malignity of his despicable wife and other monsters.”
From The New Yorker ● Mar. 11, 2019
Heath Ledger’s sensational supporting role as the Joker in The Dark Knight was a compelling picture of pure, motiveless evil and chaos – still the best supervillain in superhero film history.
From The Guardian ● Feb. 8, 2018
The characteristic of Iago is that deep motiveless malignity which rejoices in evil as its proper element—which loves evil as good men love virtue.
From Short Studies on Great Subjects by Froude, James Anthony
