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  • adjective of a song Without lyrics.

Etymologies

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lyric +‎ -less

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Examples

  • After the tracks were laid down at Stax studio -- later known as Soulsville USA -- they were trying to come up with a title for the lyricless piece, and someone said it sounded "funky," and to Louie, "funky" meant "stinky," and that made him think of onions.

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  • Sometimes a picture speaks louder than words clipped wings the aborted flight of birds cattle class traveling the wagon of life like sacrificial herds every time they move up like crabs in a bottle by a sick system pulled downwards like their script written off backwards faith in the maker moving onwards a flock appeased by every political shepherd vote for this party vote for that party syrupy catchwords lyricless sad notes of these little

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  • listen to the lyricless music of life pain sorrow misery moments of happiness battered shattered in strife..

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  • Eduard Khil) singing a lyricless song in some sort of Russian alternate dimension 1970s rendition of the late 1950s?

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