prospect
noun
Usually prospects
prospectless
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a word derived from
prospect.
Example Sentences
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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
It was the lonesomeness, of course, Ruth reflected, and perhaps a vision of 238 the dreary future, prospectless, hopeless, to be filled with the monotony of the past.
From The Range Boss by Schoonover, Frank Earle
The poor, prospectless foreigner Insarof discovers that he loves the rich, high-stationed Helen.
From Lectures on Russian Literature Pushkin, Gogol, Turgenef, Tolstoy by Panin, Ivan
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
