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rudderless
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Wikipedia
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Rudderless (German: Steuerlos ) is a 1924 German silent film directed by Gennaro Righelli and starring Maria Jacobini , Rosa Valetti and Charles Willy Kayser . The film's sets were designed by the art director Fritz Kraenke .
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
a. Without a rudder. unsteerable, without guidance.
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
adj. aimlessly drifting [syn: adrift(p) , afloat(p) , aimless , directionless , planless , undirected ]
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
adjective EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES ▪ Some historians think that when Mao died, China was left rudderless . EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ Good or evil ... These were considered old-fashioned terms in a morally rudderless society, Trent thought with more sadness ...
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Rudderless \Rud"der*less\, a. Without a rudder.
Usage examples of rudderless.
Brundisium was no longer under blockade, but there were many fleets roaming, their Liberator admirals rudderless as they debated what to do.
The ancient Angles had a saga which told of the arrival in their country of a boat, evidently sailless, oarless, and rudderless, containing only a child surrounded by arms and treasure.
One is that this group had escaped from the persecution of the early Church by the Jews, and the other main motive given is that they had been deliberately set adrift by their enemies in a rudderless and oarless vessel.
When Sereno and Lucio had ended the last revolution and thus brought peace, men like Sabin had been left rudderless.
Memorandum of the Princes was not unperceptive about the dangers of the course into which the monarchy was being swept in a state of rudderless optimism.
In addition to downsizing our military, we seem also, under the Clinton administration, to be rudderless in matters of foreign policy.
On top of everything, only two weeks to go until birthday, when will have to face up to the fact that another entire year has gone by, during which everyone else except me has mutated into Smug Married, having children plop, plop, plop, left right and centre and making hundreds of thousands of pounds and inroads into very hub of establishment, while I career rudderless and, boyfriendless through dysfunctional relationships and professional stagnation.
His father would dive only to drown, entangled by the nets as the storm's contrary winds jibed the rudderless sloop again and again and again.
Lying on its back, like a rudderless vessel it moved veeringly towards the Royal Presence.