"motiveless" meaning in English

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  "etymology_text": "From motive + -less.",
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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "adj",
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      "derived": [
        {
          "word": "motivelessly"
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          "text": "This seems to have been a motiveless crime: no money was stolen, and nobody had cause to hate the victim.",
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          "ref": "1834, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter XIV, in Francesca Carrara. […], volume II, London: Richard Bentley, […], (successor to Henry Colburn), →OCLC, page 167:",
          "text": "He was interested in their genuine, yet refined simplicity; and, moreover, the most worn and worldly natures vindicate their humanity by occasional preferences and motiveless likings.",
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        "Without a motive."
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  "word": "motiveless"
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      "word": "motivelessly"
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        "Without a motive."
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