functionless

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function +‎ -less

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functionless (not comparable)

  1. lacking a function
    • 2007 January 5, Ginia Bellafante, “With Ed, All’s Green on the Domestic Front”, in New York Times[1]:
      “Living With Ed,” which makes its debut on HGTV on Sunday night, explores a marriage between two people with opposing domestic agendas and it is a delight, a “Green Acres” for an era in which we have come to expect Connecticut to feel like Cuba well past Columbus Day. The Begleys live in a modest two-bedroom home in Studio City, Calif., where Ms. Carson has a certain appreciation for fluff: big functionless pillows on her bed to supplement those used for sleeping.

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