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workless

  • a word derived from work.
    work
    noun
    exertion or effort directed to produce or accomplish something; labor; toil.

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WSJ: With each new development in AI, do you feel like we’re slipping closer toward a workless future?

From The Wall Street Journal Nov. 18, 2025

There’s Elon Musk, bragging that he allows himself maybe two or three workless days a year.

From Slate Aug. 4, 2023

Unless, that is, neither Green nor Purple nor any of the M&Ms are actually workless for long.

From Washington Post Jan. 25, 2023

At best, this might resemble a benevolent dictatorship, where a small class of “wealth creators” manufactures and maintains the machines that make it possible for everybody else to lead workless lives.

From The Guardian May 16, 2016

There is folks that take quite enough workless days, an' laughless days, an' pityless days, an' thankless days.

From Dawn by Eleanor H. (Eleanor Hodgman) Porter