leaderlessness love

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  • noun The state or condition of being leaderless.

Etymologies

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leaderless +‎ -ness

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Examples

  • In any event the business of a leadership contest is, for Labour, a cumbersome one which would only serve to enhance the impression of division and leaderlessness that prevades the regime of Scottish sociopath Gordon Brown.

    A Five Lemon Night for Labour Lemon Suckers 2008

  • In any event the business of a leadership contest is, for Labour, a cumbersome one which would only serve to enhance the impression of division and leaderlessness that prevades the regime of Scottish sociopath Gordon Brown.

    Archive 2008-05-04 2008

  • Regardless, there are going to be growing pains as the leaders who took advantage of the movement's leaderlessness find themselves in Mark Williams 'shoes.

    Tea Party Boots Mark Williams For Racist 'Satire' In The Wake Of NAACP Criticism 2010

  • Amidst the appearance of structurelessness and leaderlessness, however, I was clearly the theatrical director, theoretician, healer of wounds, spiritual leader, and, if only by dint of a slight chronological advantage, “mother” to the band.

    Naomi Weisstein: Statement 2010

  • Regardless, there are going to be growing pains as the leaders who took advantage of the movement's leaderlessness find themselves in Mark Williams 'shoes.

    Tea Party Boots Mark Williams For Racist 'Satire' In The Wake Of NAACP Criticism 2010

  • I think a lot of Democrats are concerned right now there is this sense of leaderlessness.

    CNN Transcript Nov 3, 2004 2004

  • The ANC's leaderlessness in the Western Cape was now becoming an embarrassment and its action would not solve problems.

    ANC Daily News Briefing 1994

  • This impression of leaderlessness is not entirely correct.

    Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph 2011

  • The casual observer, unaccustomed to organizations without hierarchy, might mistake leaderlessness for structurelessness.

    Yahoo! News: Business - Opinion 2011

  • Ms. Carrington is the de facto leader, though the group strives for - or is certainly influenced by - an aesthetic of leaderlessness, and the band is being advertised by the players' three names, with hers at the end.

    NYT > Home Page By BEN RATLIFF 2012

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