{"senses": [{"examples": [{"text": "The time span of this chapterless narrative is approximately two days, and in that period Druff spends many hours being driven around the city by his chauffeur, “Dick the spy,” fantasizing himself the victim of sting operations, reminiscing about the days when he first met his wife (who had managed to turn her scoliosis into a “lewd suggestion”) and discussing with Dick the strange traffic in the middle of the night.", "ref": "1991 March 10, Lorrie Moore, “Bobbo Druff’s Alcoholic Vaudeville”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 25 May 2015:", "type": "quotation", "bold_text_offsets": [[22, 33]]}, {"text": "Fans of “Oliver Twist” had to sit through chapterless months three times in the novel’s two-year run in Bentley’s Miscellany.", "ref": "2006 December 24, Bill Carter, “When Writers Escaped the 42-Minute Box”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC:", "type": "quotation", "bold_text_offsets": [[42, 53]]}, {"text": "Chapterless and scattershot, it’s an attempted letter from Trump’s America in the style of a would-be Joan Didion (on Adderall rather than Elavil), or maybe Simone de Beauvoir, who wrote in “America Day by Day” that “there’s something in the New York air that makes sleep useless.”", "ref": "2025 December 2, Alexandra Jacobs, “Olivia Nuzzi’s Memoir Is Self-Serious and Altogether Disappointing”, in The New York Times Book Review, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC:", "type": "quotation", "bold_text_offsets": [[0, 11]]}], "links": [["chapter", "chapter"]], "glosses": ["Without chapters."], "categories": ["English adjectives", "English entries with incorrect language header", "English lemmas", "English terms suffixed with -less", "English terms with quotations", "English uncomparable adjectives", "Pages with 1 entry", "Pages with entries"], "tags": ["not-comparable"]}], "pos": "adj", "head_templates": [{"name": "en-adj", "args": {"1": "-"}, "expansion": "chapterless (not comparable)"}], "etymology_text": "From chapter + -less.", "etymology_templates": [{"name": "suffix", "args": {"1": "en", "2": "chapter", "3": "less"}, "expansion": "chapter + -less"}], "word": "chapterless", "lang": "English", "lang_code": "en"}