aimless

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There is far less free time for roving bands of aimless punks to get up to mischief.

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aimlessly drifting

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adjective

aimlessly drifting

adjective

continually changing especially as from one abode or occupation to another; "a drifting double-dealer"; "the floating population"; "vagrant hippies of the sixties"

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Core meanings and parts of speech for aimless.

adjective

aimlessly drifting

adjective

continually changing especially as from one abode or occupation to another; "a drifting double-dealer"; "the floating population"; "vagrant hippies of the sixties"

See also: drifting, floating, vagabond, vagrant

Example sentences

There is far less free time for roving bands of aimless punks to get up to mischief.

That's how they end up aimless and clueless at ~27-30 despite strong technical talent.

It's sad how much we're willing to give up to avoid every 100th comment being an aimless racial slur.

Rather than some aimless techie kvetching, I'd just like to pass along a hearty congrats to the folks who made this happen.

My principal pulled us in after a number of months and said "your aimless walking is unproductive and will lead to problems, play a sport or find a game and stop it.

Somehow, I can't imagine a bored and aimless population of billions building utopia.

For a time I found the community on Quora enjoyable, but the site is aimless, demands too much like real names, makes it too difficult to delete and manage your content.

All art is quite useless - Oscar Wilde Perhaps "pointless" or "aimless" might be better than useless, but a useless item can be a item which exists merely to delight the mind/spirit.

Mediocre talent, useless meeting, aimless projects, difficult managers etc. and you are captain-problem-crusher.

Your taxes also pay--though usually not completely--for the aimless four year party that constitutes many college students' experience in higher education.

In 2013, there need not be anything but a decentralized system, harnessing the latest technologies, manipulated by the knowledgeable, but ultimately storyless, aimless, and inhuman.