(a.) Not using words; not speaking; silent; speechless.
Example Sentences:
(1) The book is dedicated to her son, Slade, who died 18 months ago and in the face of whose death she found herself wordless.
(2) He shakes my hand with a wordless nod and I scribble a brief impression in my notebook: "glazed eyes".
(3) Think of the exquisitely framed West Texas landscapes that open No Country for Old Men, with more specks brought closer through the binoculars of Josh Brolin, or the wordless opening, stunning vistas and tactile set-pieces of period epic There Will Be Blood.
(4) From the makers of the beautiful and bleakly atmospheric Limbo, it’s another wordless game of mystery and discovery via exquisitely designed puzzles that require experimentation and lateral thinking to reach their “Eureka!” moments.
(5) However, place it on the floor and let your PlayStation peer at it (and you) through a camera, and everything springs to life on-screen, so instead of a loser with a wordless book of barcodes, you look like a magic wizard reading a magic book with all tentacles and pumpkins and lightning bolts flying out of it.
(6) They made an inscrutable, wordless art movie called Daft Punk's Electroma .
(7) Between interviews with the likes of Marianne, who designs "high-end doggy fashions" for expressionless bichon frise Lily, there are wordless montages of activity on the heath, the theme of each being, roughly, "dog".
(8) Her professional stock-in-trade as a stage and television actress was a voice that could have made a regimental sergeant major tremble and a figure, suggesting an ample corsage filled with concrete, that wordlessly and hilariously forbade the taking of liberties.
(9) A wordless cry went up somewhere in the crowd and they were off, moving as one, with no instructions, towards parliament.
(10) Wordless, but so content that my heart skipped a beat.
(11) The crowd sing along to every single song and 10,000 voices carry the wordless chorus of the closing "Wake Up" long after the group have departed the stage following their final encore.
(12) He eventually gets to us through the dark mutterings of "Peter on set" and the forest of physios, nurses, assistants and bottle washers, then settles laboriously upon the built-up khazi before getting up and wandering wordlessly off again.
(13) I would put on some things of the day, and he would go up to the record player and, wordlessly, just take it off!'
(14) My children were looking out of the car window at the hawkers – most of whom were about their age – who were shouting wordlessly and knocking on the glass, proffering their wares.
(15) Burton played the title role, while Taylor was the four-minute wordless apparition of Helen of Troy.
(16) So I nominate the scene in Persuasion in which Captain Wentworth wordlessly, and with none of their past grievous history resolved, assists a fatigued Anne Elliot into a carriage.
(17) I punch to break my opponent’s will and take him out.” Eubank Sr exclaims his approval with a wordless roar.
(18) Like Trump, they channel their own narcissism to give voice to the wordless, formless rage of the people neoliberalism left behind.
(19) In the mid-90s, Bogotá’s then-mayor, Antanas Mockus , employed more than 400 mime artists to stand guard at pedestrian crossings, showing wordless displeasure to reckless pedestrians and drivers who violated traffic rules and put lives at risk.
(20) Wordlessly the hangman steps back, places a hand on the lever which operates the trap, and gives a signal to the officers, who release Pascoe’s arms.
Workless
Definition:
(a.) Without work; not laboring; as, many people were still workless.
(a.) Not carried out in practice; not exemplified in fact; as, workless faith.
Example Sentences:
(1) In a sneak preview of the findings, Howard Reed of Landman Economics, who was commissioned to do the work, told a meeting this week that "most of the gain" from raising the income tax allowance goes to "families who aren't very poor in the first place", and instead increasing tax credits for working low-income families was the "best targeted way of encouraging work among lone parents and workless couples".
(2) According to the ONS, "comparing lone parents and couple households, the latter have a much lower chance of being a workless household".
(3) About two-fifths of the 5 million people who were workless were aged between 50 and 64, leading many to speculate that the fall in workless households was due to those people withdrawing from the labour market by taking early retirement.
(4) "For families across the UK who are income-poor, but more than that, whose lives are blighted by worklessness, educational failure, family breakdown, problem debt and poor health, as well as other problems, giving them an extra pound – say through increased benefits – will not address the reason they find themselves in difficulty in the first place."
(5) Despite very strong employment growth and record low worklessness, the number of people in families with children who are unable to attain what the public believe to be a minimum standard of living has increased by 2.2 million – more than a third – since the start of the recession, with the majority of the increase in working households”.
(6) He feels the need to lift the mood partly because he is concerned that talk of a return to recession could turn into a self-fulfilling prophecy as tumbling consumer confidence reduces demand, increases worklessness and lowers demand.
(7) The Department of Work and Pensions said: "Only by reforming the welfare system and breaking the cycle of worklessness and dependency will we improve the lives of some of the poorest families in our communities.
(8) Median pay might have been £26,000 a year, but this was gross pre-tax earnings for an individual, as opposed to the disposable income of a whole family, which for working and workless alike has always also depended on child benefits and help with the rent.
(9) According to the Office for National Statistics, Glasgow possesses the highest number of workless households in the UK .
(10) It would be disingenuous to use its problems as a bully pulpit for basic income.” He has also highlighted the risk that removing the obligation for those on benefits to look for work might encourage some people to drift into long-term worklessness .
(11) He will say the three-year cap will separate the cyclical costs of social security, which rise with economic downturns, from the long-term drivers of extra spending ranging from higher rents to long-term worklessness.
(12) Meanwhile, David Willetts sees fit to blame feminism for working-class worklessness, the Telegraph posts a "whose boobs are these?"
(13) Less than half of people in poverty live in workless or retired families 7.2m Unclaimed benefits amount to £13.2bn each year, according to figures by the Department for Work and Pensions.
(14) Commenting on the figures, Geraint Johnes, director at Lancaster University’s Work Foundation, said: “As with other labour market statistics in recent months, the headline figures indicate a favourable trajectory [and] a continued reduction in the number of workless households would obviously be desirable.” However, he added: “Equally, attention should be focused on the extent of engagement with the labour market.
(15) The headline workless numbers include student households, and excluding them from the figures pushes Nottingham into third place total to 27.3%, while Glasgow moves into first place at 28.6%, followed by East Ayrshire and North Ayrshire mainland.
(16) Their analysis – that the problem is worklessness – is wrong; their assumptions – that the poor are feckless – are wrong.
(17) A new universal credit system will make 2.5 million of the poorest people better off, reduce the number of workless households by 300,000 and give 700,000 low earning workers a chance to keep more of their earnings if they work longer hours.
(18) Out of 2.8 million workless households of working age, 2.5 million will see their entitlements reduced by an average of about £215 a year in 2015-16.
(19) However, we will never truly be able to tackle worklessness until we have local control of work-related benefits, employment support programmes and core skills funding.
(20) But two-generational worklessness is far rarer – workless parents and grown-up children are found together in only 0.9% of households.