motiveless

[ UK /mˈə‍ʊtɪvləs/ ]
ADJECTIVE
  1. occurring without motivation or provocation
    unprovoked and dastardly attack
    motiveless malignity
Linguix Browser extension
Fix your writing
on millions of websites
Get Started For Free Linguix pencil

How To Use motiveless In A Sentence

  • He grabbed her by the shoulder and head-butted her in a motiveless and unprovoked attack.
  • Then, by one of those convulsive, motiveless actions by which the wretched leap from temporary sorrow to life-long misery, she determined to marry Adam.
  • This is a motiveless, tragic murder of a young man who had everything to live for.
  • motiveless malignity
  • Meanwhile let us allow ourselves to be diverted by the motiveless villainies of crooked cruel "Chinks" like _Wang Fu Chang_, who sold opium at a terrific profit in Mayfair, hung his servants up by their thumbs and belonged to a Society of Elder Brethren, as to whose activities we were given no clue, unless indeed their job was the kidnapping of Younger Sisters for Wicked Mandarins. Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 159, December 8, 1920
  • Police, who were called to the scene shortly before 8pm, believe Paul was the victim of a motiveless beating which could have involved up to 14 youths.
  • The legal systems need for a motive results in generic stories of denial, revenge, or ‘motiveless malignity.’
  • He offers no causes, no motives and no solutions and his two blank, motiveless killers are far scarier than the traditional lone nut.
  • Moreover, players with softball experience showed lower self-determination, higher external control motivation and more motiveless willingness toward baseball than those without softball experience.
  • But what makes this case more difficult is that it is an apparently motiveless crime.
View all
This website uses cookies to make Linguix work for you. By using this site, you agree to our cookie policy