Definitions

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  • adjective Without duties.

Etymologies

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duty +‎ -less

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Examples

  • Not so with this trivial, lawless country club set of the 1920's, drunk part of the time and reckless all of it, codeless, dutiless, restless.

    Definitions: Essays in Contemporary Criticism Henry Seidel Canby 1919

  • They are all part of the culture of dutiless rights, and they are all nibbling away at the moral ligatures that hold the civic order together.

    New Statesman 2010

  • "plebeians", consumed by a culture of dutiless rights.

    New Statesman 2010

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