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- noun Alternative spelling of
bodiless .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective having no trunk or main part
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Examples
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Pleasant to be nobody -- a bodyless, meaningless smile awake in the morning.
Erik Dorn Ben Hecht 1929
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My life is simple now, and when the fog lifts, the boat is filled with, as John Muir said, "holy, beamless, bodyless, inaudible floods of light."
Katie Amatruda: How I Navigated The Four Stages Of Divorce Katie Amatruda 2011
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It's a simple tale involving the ever fickle Quimby and the bodyless cat head he hates.
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My life is simple now, and when the fog lifts, the boat is filled with, as John Muir said, "holy, beamless, bodyless, inaudible floods of light."
Katie Amatruda: How I Navigated The Four Stages Of Divorce Katie Amatruda 2011
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They retain an eerie, anthropomorphic sense of presentness; faceless, eyeless, even, bodyless—Smith plays havoc with familiar proportions and divisions—they nonetheless seem to confront us and fix us with their invisible gaze.
The Artist in All His Dimensions Karen Wilkin 2011
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Fascinating design for a bodyless silent steel-stringed guitar similar to the Yamaha nylon-stringed silent you occasionally see jazz guys playing …. but WTF is iBay Lichtenstein???
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Fixes, cleans, shrinkwraps and salts his own bodyless egg head.
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Why would I listen to a bodyless voice talk about choir rehearsals?
ONE OF THE SURVIVORS SUSAN SHAW 2009
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Why would I listen to a bodyless voice talk about choir rehearsals?
ONE OF THE SURVIVORS SUSAN SHAW 2009
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Why would I listen to a bodyless voice talk about choir rehearsals?
ONE OF THE SURVIVORS SUSAN SHAW 2009
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