Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- In a senseless manner; stupidly; unreasonably: as, a man senselessly arrogant.
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- adverb In a
senseless manner.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adverb in an unreasonably senseless manner
- adverb in a meaningless and purposeless manner
Etymologies
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Examples
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"Way to have integrity and morals" Boobiac called senselessly after Kathy's back as she walked off again.
Tallulah Morehead: Big Brother 12: The Sorrows of Boobiac 2010
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"Way to have integrity and morals" Boobiac called senselessly after Kathy's back as she walked off again.
Tallulah Morehead: Big Brother 12: The Sorrows of Boobiac. 2010
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"senselessly" took the lives of three Trigg County children on Oct. 15, 2008.
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Compared with the numbers of people killed senselessly by Bush Jr.,
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Many who occupy are lost occupants, or at least they represent the occupants of loss, the many who have senselessly lost both homes and occupations, who want to reoccupy that which has been stolen, the resources that belong to all that have been transmuted into commodities for the benefit of the few.
Eric Simpson: The Polarities Of An Occupying Ethos Eric Simpson 2011
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On the other side of the gender line, the caricature is of the hysterical, emotional and irrational female, who weeps senselessly and at anything.
Eric Simpson: Blessed Are Those Who Mourn: A Christian Understanding Of Grief Eric Simpson 2011
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On the other side of the gender line, the caricature is of the hysterical, emotional and irrational female, who weeps senselessly and at anything.
Eric Simpson: Blessed Are Those Who Mourn: A Christian Understanding Of Grief Eric Simpson 2011
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He was born in a world that was not so merry -- the diseased were outcasts, women were stoned at even the suspicion of impropriety, and children were senselessly slaughtered.
Lamar Vest: Taking The Blue With The Red And Green Lamar Vest 2011
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All you need is a brief prologue in which we see Our Hero with his smoking-hot and devoted wife — sometimes with bonus kid — who then dies senselessly and sets him on his path of vengeance.
A woman’s place is not in the refrigerator at SF Novelists 2009
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Many who occupy are lost occupants, or at least they represent the occupants of loss, the many who have senselessly lost both homes and occupations, who want to reoccupy that which has been stolen, the resources that belong to all that have been transmuted into commodities for the benefit of the few.
Eric Simpson: The Polarities Of An Occupying Ethos Eric Simpson 2011
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