goodless
adj/ˈɡʊdləs/
Etymology From Middle English goodles (“poor, without goods or property”), from Old English gōdlēas (“without good, miserable, bad, evil”), equivalent to good + -less.
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Without goods or property; destitute.
- I have therefore declared that it is all one whether a man says "God" or "good:" he is saying the same thing in substance, and cannot be called "godless" until he is goodless.1892, Horace Traubel, The conservator:
- It may be an exaggeration to suppose that the country deliberately injures itself a little in order to hurt the goodless town more, but it is certainly true that the peasants, farmers and landlords (where these survive) refuse to regard it as any part of their patriotic duty to make the least effort, [...]1922, Henry Noel Brailsford, After the peace:
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- Punishment conceived as the logical nemesis of the criminal's principle is embedded in a goodless normative framework; that is its home.2009, Alan Brudner, Punishment and Freedom:
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Worthless.
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Lacking or devoid of good or goodness.
- If there are souls to whom this world seems a goodless realm, who fail to find divine tokens of love anywhere, you and I are partly responsible.1887, William Channing Gannett, Jenkin Lloyd Jones, The faith that makes faithful:
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- goodlessness