forceless

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for forceless
Adjective
  • Surgery may be considered if nonsurgical methods are ineffective or the underlying cause indicates surgery is the most effective option.
    Sukaina Hasnie, Verywell Health, 4 June 2025
  • Not only would this produce a chaotic and likely ineffective U.S. foreign policy, but the administration could run into some serious trouble with contingency planning.
    Thomas Wright, The Atlantic, 28 May 2025
Adjective
  • In the first season, when jokes went flabby or the writers didn’t know how to finish a skit, a fake cow was dropped from the rafters.
    Christopher Borrelli, Chicago Tribune, 14 Feb. 2025
  • At a hefty 2 hours and 24 minutes, the film is flabby, not jacked, and lacking in an unpredictable live-wire element.
    Katie Walsh, Los Angeles Times, 10 Jan. 2025
Adjective
  • The first step is leaving her well-meaning but ineffectual husband (Jay Duplass) and the second is asking her best friend, Nikki (Jenny Slate), to be her primary caretaker, who agrees without hesitation.
    Olivia B. Waxman, Time, 3 Apr. 2025
  • For a business, a high-speed connection can mean the difference between productive or ineffectual operations, customer satisfaction or abandonment, and ultimately profit or loss.
    Glenn Katz, Forbes, 6 Mar. 2025
Adjective
  • Global Blue's weak February European shopper data released on March 5 did indeed work as a catalyst.
    Ganesh Rao, CNBC, 3 June 2025
  • Neurologists worried that the urban environment, factory work and office jobs, and other modern pressures were making men tired, indecisive, and physically weak.
    Time, Time, 3 June 2025
Adjective
  • But by and large, Democrats have been left on the sidelines and powerless to query Musk and his deputies, let alone stop them.
    Philip Elliott, Time, 6 June 2025
  • But when my 15-year-old cousin suddenly died in her sleep from a preventable genetic disease, my family was powerless to save her.
    Isabel van Brugen, MSNBC Newsweek, 5 June 2025
Adjective
  • Skepticism about originals dates back to the start of the studio system, but their standing has been further weakened by the recent flaccid responses to The Amateur, a spy thriller; Drop, a horror movie; and The Alto Knights, a period gangster movie.
    Peter Bart, Deadline, 24 Apr. 2025
  • My last chicken sandwich was flanked with a huge serving of flaccid cardboard-tasting fries served cold.
    R. Eric Thomas, Denver Post, 13 Apr. 2025
Adjective
  • Certain players, without their hair, could appear gaunt and impotent.
    Zach Helfand, The New Yorker, 3 Mar. 2025
  • In other words, Musk’s team was in effect rendering impotent an agency that had the power to regulate elements of his business.
    Niall Stanage, The Hill, 18 Feb. 2025
Adjective
  • This is because her spineless boyfriend was with her on that bus and plane and sat 2 rows away.
    Moná Thomas, People.com, 27 May 2025
  • Matt and his direct reports quickly reveal themselves to be spineless, self-important, thin-skinned, and out of touch.
    Inkoo Kang, New Yorker, 5 May 2025
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“Forceless.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/forceless. Accessed 10 Jun. 2025.

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