Example Sentences

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The architecture of Palladio is wholly virtueless and despicable.

From Modern Painters. Vol. III (of V) Containing Part IV. Of Many Things by Ruskin, John

O, too unkind unto so kind a wife, Too virtueless to one so virtuous, And too unchaste unto so chaste a matron.

From A Select Collection of Old English Plays, Volume 9 by Various

But when detraction is printed in the morning paper you can't overlook it without incurring the suspicion of being illiterate and virtueless.

From The Rivet in Grandfather's Neck A Comedy of Limitations by Cabell, James Branch

There are certain of his songs, certain of his orchestral sketches, that would be virtueless enough were it not for the windy freshness that pervades them.

From Musical Portraits Interpretations of Twenty Modern Composers by Rosenfeld, Paul

Their essential inexpressiveness makes almost virtueless the characteristics which Schoenberg has carried into them from out his fecund period.

From Musical Portraits Interpretations of Twenty Modern Composers by Rosenfeld, Paul