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Definition of "namelessly" []

  • Without using, or revealing a name; anonymously. (adverb)

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Use "namelessly" in a sentence
  • ""Coach Belichick is a 'players' coach' too," Mr. Woodhead said, namelessly referring back to his first coach this season, Mr. Ryan, a bombastic one-of-the-guys sort."
  • "A patient afflicted with AIDS thus evaporated from individual existence and morphed instantly into an imagined archetype—a young gay man, fresh out of the bathhouses, defiled and ravaged by profligacy, now lying namelessly in the hospital wards of New York or San Francisco."
  • "He shows how Rilke cultivated the sense of dislocation that fostered his best work, especially during the years he lived in Paris "namelessly alone," witnessing the terrifying scenes he would mold into the feverish visions of his alter ego Malte, the Prodigal Son, "a man who didn't want to be loved.""