planless
Americanadjective
Other Word Forms
- planlessly adverb
- planlessness noun
Example Sentences
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The Federal Emergency Management Agency designates September as “national preparedness month” and has expressed concerned that half of Americans are clueless — and planless — about public emergencies.
From Washington Times • Sep. 1, 2014
Army and its once-great Air Forces, both still at the edge of wrack & ruin as the result of the U.S.'s planless postwar demobilization.
From Time Magazine Archive
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Like the U.S. itself, but more acutely, Britain in 1960 is a victim of "urban sprawl," the planless mushrooming of cities.
From Time Magazine Archive
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"New York City has had a totally planless economic development," says Herbert Bienstock, a U.S.
From Time Magazine Archive
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And they lived in planless cities, for the most part dangerously congested; their rails and roads and population were distributed over the earth in the wanton confusion ten thousand irrevelant considerations had made.
From The War in the Air by Wells, H. G. (Herbert George)
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