adjective
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lacking any humanizing qualities or influences; dead; mechanical
soulless work
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(of a person) lacking in sensitivity or nobility
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heartless; cruel
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Ward added that “I’d rather drink full-sugar, Mexican Coke or, shock, Pepsi Zero, than allow the soulless Frankenstein monster known as Diet Coke to pass my lips.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 20, 2026
The empathy is gone, and now we’re left with soulless, terrifying Homelander.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 13, 2026
Contrary to popular belief, space food isn’t just freeze-dried packages or long tubes of bland, colorless and soulless slop.
From Salon ● Apr. 10, 2026
Sharma has meanwhile said she will not look to "flood our ecosystem with soulless AI slop" in her new role.
From BBC ● Feb. 23, 2026
I looked upon a desolate shell, soulless at last, unhaunted, with no whisper of the past about its staring walls.
From "Rebecca" by Daphne du Maurier
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