(1) No account has ever been rendered by either Labour or Conservative governments for their disastrous and profitless interventions.
(2) Facebook itself has driven up the bubble, according to some, by spending $1bn on Instagram, a profitless photo-sharing application.
(3) If Monday’s initial public offering (IPO) goes badly, a lot of other profitless unicorns will start feeling the chill.
(4) "There's enough of what Milan Kundera terms 'Kafkaology' about as it is: seldom has a writer been as profitlessly anatomised – and that largely as a function of writings other than his fiction – as Kafka.
Sleeveless
Definition:
(a.) Having no sleeves.
(a.) Wanting a cover, pretext, or palliation; unreasonable; profitless; bootless; useless.
Example Sentences:
(1) This weekend’s games would have to go some way to top the drama of Indianapolis rallying to overcome 28-point deficit against Kansas City , New Orleans posting their first-ever road playoff win in Philadelphia and a sleeveless Colin Kaepernick steering San Francisco to victory over Green Bay at a frozen Lambeau Field .
(2) The TV performance saw Fallon begin, dressed in the sleeveless-denim-and-bandana look Springsteen sported in the mid-80s, before the Boss – dressed identically – came out to take over.
(3) He recounted being in a meeting when a colleague mentioned a boy who had arrived at school in below-zero temperatures wearing just a thin, sleeveless bodywarmer.
(4) The fine needle technic utilizes a sleeveless, thin, flexible needle for transhepatic cholangiography.
(5) Sleeveless dresses were verboten despite the heat of summer.
(6) Sixty percent of that population will be under 30 by 2030, so it’s really time for retailers to take notice that they exist.” For years Muslim women in the UK have had to resort to a jigsaw puzzle assemblage of long sleeved T-shirts and cardigans to cover low-cut necks and sleeveless dresses.
(7) That dress earned universal praise for its elegance, boldness and simplicity, though some jibbed at its sleevelessness.
(8) Umran Ashman has run the website Modestkini since 2005, and alongside her "full cover" burkini-style swimsuits, she offers semi-covered styles, from short-sleeved tunics with three-quarter length leggings to sleeveless dress styles with cycling shorts.
(9) Summer is for those who like salads, greenery, sleeping naked under a sheet instead of cocooned in flannelette and thermals, sleeveless dresses, pedicures and strappy sandals, iced tea and Pimms, laughing gaily in the sunshine instead of nodding sombrely indoors as another Norwegian killer is unmasked, or baking themselves on a beach as the sun beats down.
(10) These women will usually be on the arm of some dude wearing some awful designer denim, a sleeveless shirt, so as to show off his designer tattoos, and expensive sunglasses, which prove, of course, just how cool he is.
(11) Forensics specialists in black sleeveless jackets peered into the soil looking for a flash of white bone.
(12) Jaeger now has three womenswear lines: Jaeger Collection, the don't-frighten-the-horses clothes we all recognise; Jaeger London, innovative dresses and separates for contemporary working women; and Jaeger Black, its premium range of what it considers investment dressing - the perfect sleeveless black shift dress, the evening coat.
(13) A group of tanned young men in sleeveless shirts and cowboy hats roamed, looking a bit like fashion models on their way to a dude-ranch photo shoot.
(14) Whether or not they approved of the Saint Laurent collection, the audience were united in lust for the latest versions (classic and sleeveless) of the house's Perfecto biker jacket.
(15) Robert Swannell, M&S's chairman, promised that the company was listening and said the number of dresses with sleeves was up 20% last year, while the sleeveless range had been cut down from 300 to 173.
(16) Earlier in the day, they will have pulled on one of those green, North Face, sleeveless fleeces over an Aran sweater tucked into the freshly pressed denims and gone stravaiging about the local park.