(a.) Without understanding; silly; thoughtless; witless.
Example Sentences:
(1) A fine period of passing is undone by a brainless gallop forwards by Kebe, who just knocks the ball into the nearest defender.
(2) We think of it as a "career path" for the beautiful and brainless.
(3) To speak metaphorically, we can opt for either brainless or mindless psychiatry, as Szasz proposed.
(4) Muscle proteins were quantified in the 1 M LiCl-soluble and distilled water-insoluble fraction of the eyeless, brainless, eviscerated and skinned carcass, as compared with a striated muscle sample from the same animal used as standard and processed in the same way as the whole carcass.
(5) And though it's good, solid, brainless fun, it's actually less colourful than the real story of the Lincoln County war.
(6) Since it's impossible to simultaneously sacrifice and worship a sacred cow, The Lone Ranger feels schizophrenic, a state of affairs that would be forgivable if it delivered as a postmodern comedy or as an exciting western or even as an exhilaratingly brainless piece of summer entertainment.
(7) After a period marked by one-sided emphasis on psychodynamics and social issues, or what could be called "brainless" psychiatry on account of its relative neglect of cerebral processes, we are witnessing an opposite trend towards extreme biologism or "mindless" psychiatry.
(8) These days, however, as no one will be surprised to hear, brainless things happen in Washington more often than not, and there's the usual parade of the usual suspects demanding that Keystone get built.
(9) The implantation of protocerebron and of optic lobes into brainless Spheroms remaining in C4 seems to restore premoult only with difficulty.
(10) It does need more big hospital "hubs" and fewer smaller hospitals, but that should not be the excuse for more brainless wrecking of what remains a phenomenal organisation – cheap, generally high quality and value-driven, as you find when you are inside it.
(11) Her husband – the narcissistic, brainless purveyor of tedious board games – probably didn’t pay her much mind in the week before the event.
(12) The author argues that neither brainless nor mindless psychiatry can do justice to the complexity of mental illness and to the treatment of patients.
(13) These were not brainless carnivores, in other words.
(14) The latter is neither mindless nor brainless but rather encompasses both the mind and the brain in its theoretical and practical consideration.
(15) We need all the support we can get to put a stop to this dangerous promotion of women as stupid slags, sexy sluts and brainless bimbos.
Headless
Definition:
(a.) Having no head; beheaded; as, a headless body, neck, or carcass.
(a.) Destitute of a chief or leader.
(a.) Destitute of understanding or prudence; foolish; rash; obstinate.
Example Sentences:
(1) That it comes exactly 100 days from the opening ceremony of the Rio Games merely underlines the urgency now that the team has been left in effect headless.
(2) Facebook Twitter Pinterest ‘It stands inert as a headless electric toothbrush, but less useful.’ Well?
(3) There will be burlesque workshops for adults, the Magnificent Insect Circus Museum and five performances of Sideshow Illusions featuring a headless lady.
(4) To examine the influence of the head and tail domains on the structure and assembly properties of nuclear lamins, we have engineered "headless," "tailless," and "rod" chicken lamin B2 cDNAs and expressed them in Escherichia coli.
(5) Agencies are headless, leaks are rampant, and aides are congratulated for lying on TV.
(6) This unconditioned response affects the headless cockroaches avoid shocks in the lifting task by escape learning, whereas they avoid shocks in the lowering task by true avoidance learning.
(7) Following induction of long-term potentiation in subfield CA1 of the hippocampal slice from 26-month-old rats, shaft synapse numbers increased by 44% and sessile spine synapses (synapses on stubby, headless spines) by 72%, with the more common mushroom-shaped spine synapses statistically unaltered.
(8) I’m going to be running around like a headless chicken later,” she says, looking at the afternoon’s roster of short appointments.
(9) It is concluded that the headless cockroach is useful for understanding the motor mechanisms underlying righting and walking but is not of value in assessing the functions of proprioceptive feedback.
(10) The site quickly became unavailable, but screenshots circulated online showed the group's trademark headless suit and a message addressed to the Syrian people saying that "the world stands with you against the brutal regime."
(11) Fragments fused soon after isolation formed "headless" regenerates but had normal body proportions.
(12) And when Nick Clegg suggested that the next generation of nuclear power stations may never be built because the recommended higher and more costly safety standards would make them too expensive, Chris Huhne launched an astonishing attack on his party leader , accusing him of behaving like a "headless chicken" on the issue.
(13) Whereas dimers made of the truncated B2 headless and rod lamins had lost their propensity to associate head-to-tail, tailless lamin B2 dimers revealed an enhanced head-to-tail association.
(14) The Conservative housing spokesman, Grant Shapps, said: "We welcome anything that will genuinely keep people in their homes, but ministers are guilty of running around like headless chickens announcing complicated, confusing and often contradictory plans, which later turn out to help far fewer people than the headlines would have you believe."
(15) It was because I was like a headless chicken in the first 10 minutes.” Dier is remembering his baptism as a defensive midfielder and the manager who gave it to him at Sporting Lisbon on 2 March 2013.
(16) Just four years later, Libya is witnessing an explosion in violence, led by al-Qaida and Islamic State (Isis): the gruesome murder of Egyptian Christians , devastating suicide bombings , the kidnapping of western oil workers and the discovery of countless headless soldiers and civil-society activists in Benghazi.
(17) The cover comes from a "headless" gull-shaped, forehead flap.
(18) In each case, skeletal metastases were extensive, but the calvaria was not involved, resulting in a headless appearance.
(19) But Paul Edden, who runs a franchise in Staffordshire, told of rivals who pay the minimum wage and run staff around "like headless chickens".
(20) blog alongside a photo of a headless Labour MP, and the most visible woman anywhere near the government remains Samantha Cameron, who could this week be found baking cupcakes for a royal wedding street party.