writerless en · ADJ
Etymology
From writer + -less.
Meanings
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(not-comparable) Without a writer.
Mr. O’Brien, who also sported a beard, didn’t try to go on as usual, but gave a sober speech in defense of the writers, then turned his show into a long comic riff on his writerless state, spinning his wedding ring for laughs and giving a show-and-tell tour of his office at NBC.
2008 January 4, Alessandra Stanley, “Letterman Kvetches, Leno Gets By”, in New York Times: