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• s  having no justifying cause or reason
  a senseless, causeless murder
  a causeless war that never had an aim
• s  having no cause or apparent cause
  a causeless miracle

• The movies always have a place for at least one causeless rebel whose choler is both enigmatic and unappeasable.
• For evil is a concept that blossoms out of the causeless, and crimes against children seem the least explicable of human brutalities.
• Brutality in the camp was casual and causeless; what was learned in addition to parroted Marxist self-criticism was fear, hunger and aching homesickness.

• reasonless
• fortuitous
• uncaused

Quotes

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• Robert Louis Stevenson in guardian.co.uk
  Although wicked James, with what Stevenson called "deadly, causeless duplicity", can boast "I never yet failed to charm a person when I wanted", honest Henry's only reward for competently running the estates in his absence is the...