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motiveless

[ UK /mˈə‍ʊtɪvləs/ ]
ADJECTIVE
  1. occurring without motivation or provocation
    unprovoked and dastardly attack
    motiveless malignity

How To Use motiveless In A Sentence

  • Mentally handicapped man in motiveless gang attack.
  • Such rowdy, ruffianly, and apparently motiveless violence has a much longer history than the term hooligan.
  • Ryder is hired to investigate a brutal and apparently motiveless murder.
  • A spokesman said: ‘This totally unprovoked and motiveless assault was a terrifying ordeal for the young man who had just finished work and was making his way home.’
  • Hideous, jarring Luther, filled with phlegmy death rattles, seeping brains, and motiveless daylight butcherings carried out by psychopaths "just for the lulz". Grace Dent's TV OD: Luther and Falling Skies
  • He said: ‘This was a random and motiveless attack on a defenceless man.’
  • Its hero, Milo, is perpetually dejected, burdened with motiveless discontent.
  • Trying to calculate the motivations of others is frustrating precisely because some statements or actions are motiveless.
  • A widow was bludgeoned to death as she sat down to her lunch at home in what appears to have been a motiveless attack.
  • He grabbed her by the shoulder and head-butted her in a motiveless and unprovoked attack.
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