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- adjective Not
purposeful , unintended.
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Examples
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Indeed, the unpurposeful meanderings of matter in the universe can produce the wonderful intricacies of the human eye, and much else besides.
The God Conundrum Sean 2006
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During any weekday lunch hour, the adjacent sidewalks are a sea of people, and a testament to what Jane Jacobs wrote 50 years ago: "Lowly, unpurposeful and random and they may appear, sidewalk contacts are the small change from which a city's wealth of public life may grow."
Thestar.com - Home Page Kenneth Kidd 2011
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"I apologize for any purposeful disrespect or unpurposeful disrespect that was directed at anyone involved with this case."
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What you see as proof of an unthinking and unpurposeful developmental force punctuated by accidents and spontaneous mutations, I view as a purposeful and continuous process of development resulting from the will and work of creator God.
Denver Post: News: Breaking: Local MPilot 2010
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Neighbors have raised concerns over the sign, calling it '' unpurposeful and extremely unpleasant to look at. ''
Post-Journal 2010
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Yet it's also multilingual, multicultural and multi-unpurposeful.
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• Dystonia - uncoordinated spastic movements of the body • Tardive dyskinesia - involuntary twitching or muscle movements • Apraxia - involuntary unpurposeful movements MOTOR ACTIVITY
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You can have unintentional design, or instinctual design, or whatever you want to call it - spider's webs, snowflakes, etc. But you can't have unintentional intention, or unpurposeful purpose.
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The Western world is still affluent enough to be able to support and finance many of their unpractical and directly unpurposeful activities.
Baltimore Reporter 2009
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You can have unintentional design, or instinctual design, or whatever you want to call it - spider's webs, snowflakes, etc. But you can't have unintentional intention, or unpurposeful purpose.
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