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briefless

briefless adjective: lacking briefs (clients).

Adjective

briefless (comparative more briefless, superlative most briefless)

  1. Lacking briefs (clients)
    • Consequently a briefless barrister who is totally without connexion, as it is delicately phrased, which means who has no attorney blood in him, who has not married an attorney's daughter, and who has no rich relations who bring grist to the attorney mill, cannot hope by any change of administration...1849 November, “The Avatar of Attorneyism”, in Fraser's Magazine for Town and Country, volume 40, page 572
    • As an advocate he had no success, for after walking the floor of the Parliament House, as it is called in Edinburgh, along with other briefed and briefless advocates, and securing only one case, which brought him four guineas, he abandoned that practice and settled down seriously to his true life...1899 June 10, H. B. Baildon, “Robert Louis Stevenson: Essayist, Novelist and Poet”, in The Living Age, volume 221, number 2866, page 683
  2. Not wearing briefs

Forms of briefless

comparativemore briefless
superlativemost briefless

Origin of briefless

From brief + -less.

Words formed from briefless

Questions about briefless

What does briefless mean?
Briefless means lacking briefs (clients).
What part of speech is briefless?
Briefless is an adjective.

Words near briefless in the dictionary

  1. briefing note
  2. briefing notes
  3. Briefingate
  4. briefings
  5. briefish
  6. briefless
  7. brieflessly
  8. brieflessness
  9. briefly
  10. briefman
  11. briefmen

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