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from The Century Dictionary.

  • Not having the power of choosing; destitute of free will.

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  • adjective without a choice

Etymologies

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choice +‎ -less

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Examples

  • 6 The term choiceless choice was introduced by the literary scholar Lawrence L. Langer to characterize the moral circumstances of the Nazi death camps: see Versions of Survival: The Holocaust and the Human Spirit Albany: State University of New York Press, 1982, p.

    Every protest’s novel 2009

  • 6 The term choiceless choice was introduced by the literary scholar Lawrence L. Langer to characterize the moral circumstances of the Nazi death camps: see Versions of Survival: The Holocaust and the Human Spirit Albany: State University of New York Press, 1982, p.

    Archive 2009-11-01 2009

  • Two months pregnant, hungry, with no education, no skills and her health collapsing, Shola made a poor and disempowered woman's classic "choiceless choice."

    Ashley Judd: A Kenyan Brothel's Lasting Impression Ashley Judd 2011

  • Two months pregnant, hungry, with no education, no skills and her health collapsing, Shola made a poor and disempowered woman's classic "choiceless choice."

    Ashley Judd: A Kenyan Brothel's Lasting Impression Ashley Judd 2011

  • Two months pregnant, hungry, with no education, no skills and her health collapsing, Shola made a poor and disempowered woman's classic "choiceless choice."

    Ashley Judd: A Kenyan Brothel's Lasting Impression Ashley Judd 2011

  • Two months pregnant, hungry, with no education, no skills and her health collapsing, Shola made a poor and disempowered woman's classic "choiceless choice."

    Ashley Judd: A Kenyan Brothel's Lasting Impression Ashley Judd 2011

  • RT if you believe in choiceless than a minute ago via webGary Baker

    Twitter atwitter about suspension of popular Twitter apps 2011

  • I take sole custody of my actions of my choices even the one to be choiceless but I cannot help wonder if we might have survived if you had stepped off the bleachers strode onto the field gotten into the game with me instead of intermittently clapping from the sidelines.

    Seven 2010

  • Much of what's wrong is related to powerless taxpayers and choiceless consumers funding companies that deliver crap products and services at high prices.

    Moving Forward on Health Care - Swampland - TIME.com 2008

  • He is to be pitied for the choiceless intellectual morass he lives in, not attacked.

    Discourse.net: Just Deserts 2008

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  • more PC versions: choice-abled; choice-free; other-choiced

    April 25, 2008

  • Heehee.

    April 25, 2008