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namelessness

/neym-lis/US // ˈneɪm lɪs //UK // (ˈneɪmlɪs) //

无名,无名氏,无名化,无名度

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Definitions

adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : having no name.
    • : left unnamed: a certain person who shall be nameless.
    • : anonymous: a nameless source of information.
    • : incapable of being specified or described: a nameless charm.
    • : too shocking or vile to be specified: a nameless crime.
    • : having no legitimate paternal name, as a child born out of wedlock.
    • : unknown to fame; obscure: a nameless poet; nameless defenders of the country.

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Examples

  • In the endless and messy global war over Internet security, even the most vigilant companies have seen their defenses fall at the hands of nameless and faceless foes.

  • It was during her sophomore year that Cooper met a Red Sox player she would prefer remain nameless.

  • It wasn’t until I got to the post-credits scene—the one where the whole team is sitting around, silently eating, in some nameless, unaffiliated NYC shawarma joint—that my phone started to vibrate.

  • Distraught, our nameless, shapeless, unknowable protagonist enlists in the army.

  • “Too often the injustices neglect nameless faces and stories,” Dandolo writes in an email.

  • We laughed hard, harder even than those nameless, faceless laughers in whatever mysterious locale Bill Cosby was performing.

  • A nameless, faceless entity known to his followers as Spot News, the handle of his Twitter and Instagram accounts.

  • Brat is going to make Brown look like a nameless session guitar player.

  • Though Rodin may well have known his models, they remain nameless representations of “a” body.

  • Her eyes, for a moment, fixed themselves with a horrid conviction of a wide and nameless treachery.

  • If he has higher views for his son than a marriage with a nameless girl like me, his son should be the last to find fault.

  • A moment later there was Something nearly at his left elbow, and he smelt again the nameless, fœtid reek.

  • The loping pursuit of that nameless, shapeless Something sounded like an echo in his head.

  • An M.P., who shall be nameless, supplies me with an apt illustration of East Anglian dialect.