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leaderless

leaderless \leaderless\ adj. lacking a leader; as, a leaderless mob running riot in the streets.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
leaderless

1590s, from leader (n.1) + -less. Related: Leaderlessly; leaderlessness.

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leaderless

a. 1 Without a person providing direction. 2 Without a thing serving as leader.

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Usage examples of "leaderless".

But if he thought that Emich and his ten thousand were only a leaderless collection of peasants apt to go on a mindless rampage against the Jews, a look in the direction of the men about him swiftly put an end to that idea.

He saw that the undrilled crew, leaderless, shocked and decimated, had no idea what to do.

Under their captain, Bombaata, the Kushites retained a semblance of order that gave them an advantage over the unorganized Anakim and the leaderless mob.

Without Clodius I understand the crossroads college dissidents are leaderless, but Cloelius ran them for Clodius, and now he can run them for me.

We frown upon reckless killings, but wounded or leaderless members of our Courts often kill when they do not truly need to.

Gangs of the ruffians who had forced Griffin and Hansford gained membership among the desperate, the young, the leaderless and the panicked.

The battle became hand-to-hand, a leaderless riot, where ax or dagger or quarterstaff was more useful than fire-beam or pellet gun.

But his people, though they felt his loss were not leaderless, for Medon, the bastard son of Oileus by Rhene, set them in array.