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- adjective Without a
country .
Etymologies
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Examples
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The October war is hardly likely to be the last until this crucial problem of a landless, homeless, countryless people is resolved.
MESSAGE TO THE PEOPLE OF SOUTH AFRICA, JUNE 26, 1974(1) 1974
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Then with a last look, Prince Ivan, homeless, countryless, and fatherless, slowly turned, and, the boy Ivan went soberly to join
The Boy Scouts in Front of Warsaw George Durston
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More than once the American diplomatist had had occasion to take part in delicate negotiations with one of those nameless, countryless individuals, whose ideal it is to be in the pay of a foreign Embassy, and who always set on their ignoble services a far higher value than those services generally deserve.
The Uttermost Farthing Marie Belloc Lowndes 1907
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For though the Jews had been content to see that Europe which they contemned parcelled out among a few, while the mass of men hovered countryless -- from this had arisen their lucre -- their mental quality was too rich in business shrewdness to tolerate in their own case any such Bedlam: yet they stood helpless before the disaster, and only in the Regent was hope.
The Lord of the Sea 1906
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A homeless, countryless derelict, and he had the impudence to revert to comparisons that no longer existed in this topsy-turvy old world.
The Drums of Jeopardy Harold MacGrath 1901
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Oh wait you're the guy that spouts off that liberals are nazi, so naturally you think we're on the brink of a major capitulation to a small band of countryless Radical Muslims.
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Oh wait you're the guy that spouts off that liberals are nazi, so naturally you think we're on the brink of a major capitulation to a small band of countryless Radical Muslims.
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Oh wait you're the guy that spouts off that liberals are nazi, so naturally you think we're on the brink of a major capitulation to a small band of countryless Radical Muslims.
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Oh wait you're the guy that spouts off that liberals are nazi, so naturally you think we're on the brink of a major capitulation to a small band of countryless Radical Muslims.
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Oh wait you're the guy that spouts off that liberals are nazi, so naturally you think we're on the brink of a major capitulation to a small band of countryless Radical Muslims.
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