Out of work

Usage examples of jobless.

There came a Saturday when Jimmy, jobless and fundless, dreaded his return to the Indiana Avenue rooming-house, where he knew the landlady would be eagerly awaiting him, for he was a week in arrears in his room rent already, and had been warned he could expect no further credit.

Dumping grounds for the uneducated hoi polloi, the jobless peasants, the Asians, the blacks, the Dominicans, the fodder that keeps our opulent society humming, the little people who kill the chickens and disembowel the cattle and pick the cotton and work in the sweatshops and wash the dishes, scrub the toilets, mop floors, and buy all the cigarettes.

Then his walk lost its spring as he realized that Bertrand, jobless and talentless as he was, still had Christine.

But put yourself in my position: landless, moneyless, powerless, jobless, and cuckolded.

I ask him his opinion of a jobless faith, of a creed which dooms a man through life to a lean and plunderless integrity.

The majority of the spectators, grown men and late adolescents who wore the gaudy codpieces and indefinable look of the jobless, lost most of their enthusiasm for betting and brooded in sullen silence.

There were stories about increases in the jobless and homeless figures, a small shipment of crack intercepted in Chunnel, and massacres in Peru, Kowloon, Johannesburg, and Atlanta.

Omuro had gouged the poor, especially the nearly destitute jobless ex-servicemen during the depression years of the early ‘fifties.

Omuro had gouged the poor, especially the nearly destitute jobless ex-servicemen during the depression years of the early 'fifties.

A shark who had never made repairs, had partitioned rooms smaller and smaller, raised rents…Omuro had gouged the poor, especially the nearly destitute jobless ex-servicemen during the depression years of the early ’fifties.

So many jobless Helmsmen were idle on the streets of Avalon, and so few ships were still in commission, that only the well connected found jobs.

His finances are on an even keel: for a year after the charity collapsed leaving him jobless, he was harried by landladies as he moved from one cheap room to another.

Hastily made banners were raised on every side, demanding increased food rations, a resumption of state aid to the jobless, and an end to travel restrictions.

Those who are hungry, unskilled, jobless, homeless, or simply chronically unhappy, cannot be told to shut up.