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Definition of Idealless
1. [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Idealless
Literary usage of Idealless
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Anarchism and Other Essays by Emma Goldman, Hippolyte Havel (1910)
"Unlike your idealless and brainless American brothers, your ideals soared above
the belly and the bank account. No wonder you impressed the one human being ..."
2. Great Debates in American Hist: From the Debates in the British Parliament by United States Congress, Great Britain Parliament, Marion Mills Miller (1913)
"... panicky, grasping, idealless kind. Moreover, we have developed a politician
whose principal method of getting things done is by barter. ..."
3. The Arena by Harry Houdini Collection (Library of Congress) (1907)
"... while some, of course, were as halting and short-sighted as the idealless
imaginations of the materialists who uttered them. But the general spirit and ..."
4. Great Debates in American History: From the Debates in the British by United States Congress, Marion Mills Miller, Great Britain Parliament (1913)
"... can know—the panicky, grasping, idealless kind. Moreover, we have developed
a politician whose principal method of getting things done is by barter. ..."
5. The Gentleman's Magazine (1876)
"... and all the more because he resents bitterly the long neglect and disdain of
his fox-hunting relatives and their idealless associates. ..."
6. Studies of the Eighteenth Century in Italy by Vernon Lee (1908)
"... and testing his likings by his own ; while he was but a poor little feeling-
less, idealless scholar, Metastasio probably regarded Gravina as a god : he ..."
7. The Tariff in Our Times by Ida Minerva Tarbell (1911)
"... we have developed a politician who encourages the most dangerous kind of
citizenship a democracy can know — the panicky, grasping, idealless kind. ..."
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