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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Origin of soulless
Example Sentences
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Awarding only one star, the Independent's Clarisse Loughrey described the film as a "ghoulish, soulless cash grab".
From BBC • Apr. 21, 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
The only thing I don’t love about Taix is that its owners are tearing it down to erect soulless condos.
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 26, 2026
Ashton Kutcher’s performance as the soulless mogul Byron Forst is an obvious send-up of Elon Musk.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 21, 2026
He stood once more and again in his high flat house without sides to it and without a roof with his soulless sword standing upright in his hand.
From "Their Eyes Were Watching God" by Zora Neale Hurston
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