passionless Meaning of "passionless"

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Definition(s):

  1. (adj) not passionate
  2. (adj) unmoved by feeling

Usage(s):

  1. Alternately cranky, elderly, caustic, equivocating, inarticulate, passionless.
  2. They don't sob and shout, yet they aren't passionless.
  3. As compensation, he brings a succession of sad, passionless women to his office, and there on the couch Bobby proceeds to make sad, passionless love.

Quotes

  1. "You know, people fault President Obama for being passionless sometimes, for being a little too cold," Brooks said on PBS NewsHour in May. "But when you have a week like this, where you've got the Greek situation, the oil spill, you've got...
    on Jul 6, 2010 By: David Brooks Source: The Atlantic (blog)

  2. Writing in The Sydney Morning Herald immediately after the election, David Marr described Rudd's election night performance as "so passionless, so grey that it raises the terrible possibility that our new leader is not channelling John Howard but...
    on Feb 26, 2008 By: David Marr Source: The Australian

  3. "We had no energy," Hornets coach Byron Scott said. "We played very passively. It was a passionless game. I hate losing. The effort was 50 percent instead of 100. This is a step backward."
    on Nov 28, 2005 By: Byron Scott Source: USA Today

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