The Collaborative International Dictionary
Senseless \Sense"less\, a. Destitute of, deficient in, or contrary to, sense; without sensibility or feeling; unconscious; stupid; foolish; unwise; unreasonable.
You blocks, you stones, you worse than senseless
things.
--Shak.
The ears are senseless that should give us hearing.
--Shak.
The senseless grave feels not your pious sorrows.
--Rowe.
They were a senseless, stupid race.
--Swift.
They would repent this their senseless perverseness
when it would be too late.
--Clarendon.
[1913 Webster] -- Sense"less*ly, adv. -- Sense"less*ness,
n.
Wiktionary
adv. In a senseless manner.
WordNet
adv. in a meaningless and purposeless manner; "these innocent bystanders were senselessly killed"
in an unreasonably senseless manner; "these temples were mindlessly destroyed by the Red Guards" [syn: mindlessly]
Usage examples of "senselessly".
He feels the fear begin to accrete, seamlessly, senselessly, with absolute conviction, around this carnival ghost, the Cadillac, this oil-burning relic in its spectral robe of smudged mosaic silver.
Set her to training horses, not for their own sake or for the service of men, but to be slaughtered, slaughtered senselessly in this strife of men who could not keep their quarrels to themselves alone but involved the innocent birds and horses in their wars and killings.
Gowns and petticoats, many of them senselessly torn and dirtied, were scattered everywhere.
Split-second blasts of music, commercials, and disc jockeys' voices blared senselessly out of the speakers.
Every clear day he set off on foot, not in his car, striding optimistically along in his single-breasted suit, beanpole in shape because the coat and trousers were so unnaturally and senselessly tight.
Holding the bird high above his head, the man slits its throat, holding it for a moment until the blood drips and spatters onto the woman's heaving teats, and then drops it onto her belly, where it scrambles senselessly in a smear of crimson.