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[ UK /pˈa‍ʊələs/ ]
[ US /ˈpaʊɝɫəs/ ]
ADJECTIVE
  1. lacking power

How To Use powerless In A Sentence

  • One of the strongest non-random patterns is that rich and powerful people are healthier than poor and powerless people.
  • Anger and hatred are powerless in the face of authentic human kindness.
  • Up to this contact with Price, and indeed for some time after, I had regarded group selection as so ill-defined, so woolly in the uses made by its proponents, and so generally powerless against selection at the individual and genic levels, that the idea might as well be omitted from the toolkit of a working evolutionist. David Sloan Wilson: Truth and Reconciliation for Group Selection XIII: Hamilton Speaks
  • So we are inclined to side with the powerless rather than the powerful.
  • Even comparatively powerless and uninfluential lay people must accept some responsibility for the situation.
  • She could hardly bear to look on the livid face, the closed eyes, the thin dilated nostrils, and the painful expression of powerlessness that met her sight. The Semi-Attached Couple
  • Traffic wardens were powerless to ticket him because the law says penalties cannot be given out if the lines are obscured.
  • When, in the middle of the the first season, callow account exec Pete Campbell walks past striving-to-be-a-copywriter secretary Peggy Olson's desk without acknowledging her, Peggy's incremental comprehension of her powerlessness with this guy she's had sex with is documented in her face's shift from anticipation to abashment to acceptance. Sheila Weller: Mad Hopes for the Mad Men Women
  • To capture the mystery, caprice and force of romantic love, the ancients conjured Cupid, a mischievous immortal in whose thrall we are wholly powerless.
  • People have felt their democratic rights damaged because they have found themselves powerless to influence or affect the outcome in the services that matter most to them. The Global Marketplace
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