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In this planlessness and confusion of purposes lay the seeds of Iraq's present chaos.

From Time Magazine Archive

But, with all this, there may be much incoherence and planlessness.

From A Handbook of Ethical Theory by Fullerton, George Stuart

To make all this distincter I will show the planlessness of certain contemporary things, of two main sets of human interests in fact, and explain what inferences a Socialist draws in these matters.

From New Worlds For Old A Plain Account of Modern Socialism by Wells, H. G. (Herbert George)

But most of it is due to blind competitive planlessness and waste.

From The Coming of Coal by Bruere, Robert W.

It was the planlessness, the flimsy temporariness of the buildings, their faded unpleasant colors.

From Main Street by Lewis, Sinclair