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Virtueless

Virtueless \Vir"tue*less\, a. Destitute of virtue; without efficacy or operating qualities; powerless.

Virtueless she wished all herbs and charms.
--Fairfax.

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virtueless

a. Lacking virtue.

Usage examples of "virtueless".

Their essential inexpressiveness makes almost virtueless the characteristics which Schoenberg has carried into them from out his fecund period.

There are certain of his songs, certain of his orchestral sketches, that would be virtueless enough were it not for the windy freshness that pervades them.

I fear it will be only a phase, a temporary pull-back from the tried-and-true formula of the virtueless action pictures that have become the staple of every movie summer.

He beseeches mercy for his friend: "*Woe worth* the faire gemme virtueless!