(a.) Void of love; void of tenderness or kindness.
(a.) Not attracting love; unattractive.
Example Sentences:
(1) His first, in fact, since just after the release of 1991's Loveless, along with Nirvana's Nevermind the most influential album of the 1990s.
(2) The statewide program began in 2009, on the recommendations of the coroner following the suicide of Simon John Loveless at Roebourne Regional Prison in 2007.
(3) Since his withdrawal from the music scene, Shields has earned a reputation as the latter-day Brian Wilson, a tormented genius unable to produce a successor to Loveless, the Pet Sounds of UK avant-rock.
(4) The organisations that find and train men like Atta have since been responsible for unutterable crimes in many countries and societies, from England to Iraq, in their attempt to create a system where the cold and loveless zombie would be the norm, and culture would be dead.
(5) But then, what's half an hour for a man whose three year procrastination over the recording of Loveless drained Creation Records of its resources and sent the label boss, Alan McGee , over the edge, and who spent a decade keeping Island Records waiting for a follow-up that never came?
(6) Eventually you will lose respect for one another and either break up or find yourselves locked into a loveless future.
(7) There's the enmity between husband and wife flung together in a loveless marriage expressed in a series of caustic asides to the audience, and the idiocy of Lord Are, who bears all the hallmarks of the fops Restoration audiences loved to laugh at.
(8) The band's first release since 1991's classic Loveless trod a familiar path, but it was still one that only they have the map to follow.
(9) Any divorce settlement must be ugly enough to ensure the remaining 27 stay with their spouse, no matter how loveless that marriage might feel.
(10) We previously described the isolation of a human oncogene which had acquired transforming potential by a DNA rearrangement accompanying transfection of NIH 3T3 cells with human tumor DNA (X. Zhan, A. Culpepper, M. Reddy, J. Loveless, and M. Goldfarb, Oncogene 1:369-376, 1987).
(11) This wasn't the usual loveless EastEnders bouquet – a sickly-sweet accompaniment to the ever-present stench of batter mix, rotting market produce and Phil Mitchell's blouson runoff – but a pungent, altogether denser concoction.
(12) In a sign of the loveless nature of the coalition in the final six months before the general election, Baker announced his resignation in an interview with the Independent apparently without notifying the home secretary.
(13) Weird and shocking at first, but then you think how brilliant to live in this modern world where old people are allowed to escape loveless marriages.
(14) As Shields points out, 1991 saw not just huge outlays from Creation on Loveless but also on the label's other key releases of the era such as Teenage Fanclub's Bandwagonesque and Primal Scream's Screamadelica.
(15) Apart from being mistaken for someone who might be a miserable, loveless killjoy, one also has to face the fact that one might be a bit, well, crazy – one of the people who can’t be trusted to be reliable parents, partners, or even employees.
(16) And if the making of Loveless was a song and dance, then the protracted process that led to its follow-up was a fully fledged fandango.
(17) He dismisses these conditions philosophically – "It's part of the job and we're all going to die anyway" – but when the tinnitus struck for the first time during the mixing of Loveless, he feared for his ears.
(18) But humans were not "doomed to carry on in a downward spiral of the greedy, addictive, loveless behaviour" that had brought mankind to this crisis and he urged people to scrutinise their lifestyles and policies and how these demonstrated care for creation.
(19) The Labour deputy leader, Harriet Harman , called for an apology, and a spokesman for the Liberal Democrats – increasingly eager to show they are locked in a loveless marriage with Cameron – said: "We would not have used that language."
(20) The great themes of Gatsby are so quintessentially American that they recur endlessly throughout the nation's art anyway: Don Draper, with his occluded origins, unconquerable solitude and loveless prosperity, is Gatsby 1968; Sunset Boulevard grants Norma Desmond and Joe Gillis precisely the same delusions about recovering the past as are shared by Gatsby and Carraway; and the criminal origin of respectable fortunes is a time-worn narrative trope (The Godfather again).
Lovelorn
Definition:
(a.) Forsaken by one's love.
Example Sentences:
(1) It was not the familiar banshee scream of a lovelorn vixen, but a rapid, almost mechanical, yipping.
(2) Inglis said the campaign was much more integrated across a range of different media than last year's effort which featured lovelorn snowmen.
(3) Others favour the luxuriant sleaze of Baby Wants To Ride or 1989's gorgeous, lovelorn Tears .
(4) Among other legends, the lovelorn poet Sappho is said to have ended her life here.
(5) But then it's a quality that his fans, particularly women of a certain age who first came across him nearly 30 years ago as lovelorn Lloyd Dobler, the hero of Say Anything , will recognise instantly – a hang-dog odd-man-outness which accompanies expectations of a John Cusack movie to this day.
(6) Ben Whishaw could not be more opposite.” The emergence of actors like Whishaw, who played the lovelorn John Keats in Jane Campion’s Bright Star , Sebastian Flyte in the 2008 adaptation of Brideshead Revisited , and appeared in the BBC series London Spy , poses a dilemma for film-makers.
(7) "I've never felt quite like this," sings Dilla, like a lovelorn robot.
(8) Yet he appears not much older than lovelorn Sam, the precocious child in 2012’s Moonrise Kingdom.
(9) The band's most arresting tracks, for me, are the lovelorn ones, such as White Blank Page – and what effect will a happy marriage have on that?
(10) Here are some of the things we learned from this year’s awards: Drunk Ed Sheeran is more fun than sober Ed Sheeran As with when Sam Fox and Mick Fleetwood hosted the Brits, the reason for pairing meek and lovelorn acoustic troubadour Ed Sheeran with the fiery, unpredictable Ruby Rose was the hilarity of juxtaposition .
(11) Tracks is her third UK release in nine weeks: February saw her wreaking havoc as a brattish vampire in Jim Jarmusch's Only Lovers Left Alive, while earlier this month she all but destroyed a lovelorn Jesse Eisenberg in Richard Ayoade's The Double.
(12) But most fat women in media didn’t even get that far – most were lovelorn, vulgar comic relief, their sexuality spun as either a menace or a joke.
(13) In TMNT Arnett plays Vern Fenwick, hapless and lovelorn cameraman to intrepid city desk reporter April O’Neil (Megan Fox), who barely notices his knock-kneed crush as they happen upon the titular subterranean superheroes.
(14) Despite its visual style, his first feature film, The Hunger (1982), which starred David Bowie and Catherine Deneuve as lovelorn vampires, failed to make much of an impression with critics.
(15) In principle, it's an amusingly odd choice to dress up as a reindeer, and depict its lovelorn life.
(16) It won't translate..." You're most famous for playing the lovelorn Molly in the BBC drama Sherlock .