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jointlessly en · ADV

Etymology

From jointless + -ly.

Meanings

  1. (not-comparable) Without joints.
    • I see him stand, jointlessly unfolding, pull from the holster on his hip the shingle knife, as easy as you'd pluck the fork beside your plate. 2006, Jane Gentry, Portrait of the artist as a white pig, page 6:
    • How jointlessly, and how jointlessly The frivolous cake sailed by On the waves of the ocean that pointlessly Threw fish to the lilac sky. 1946, Mervyn Peake, Titus Groan, London: Eyre & Spottiswoode, →OCLC: