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He manages simultaneously to loathe the life he leads – still living with his parents in the north-east, perennially broke, prospectless – and to accept that his chess ability defines him.

From The Guardian • Nov. 20, 2015

And Georgia, laughing—Georgia was strongly addicted to laughing—said if there was any man ready to hang upon her every word, that she, being twenty-seven and prospectless, must not let him get away.

From The Glory of the Conquered The Story of a Great Love by Glaspell, Susan

If your life were as blank and prospectless as mine, you might have good reason indeed to sigh and complain.

From Honor Edgeworth Ottawa's Present Tense by Vera, [pseud.]

It is stagnating, it remains as formless and prospectless as the mist outside.

From Royal Highness by Mann, Thomas

But England and France, the leaders of Europe, the peregrinators of the world, cannot be confined to those lazy and prospectless paths.

From Captain Sword and Captain Pen A Poem by Hunt, Leigh