[
UK
/mˈəʊtɪvləs/
]
ADJECTIVE
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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.