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plotless

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[plaht-lis] / ˈplɑt lɪs /

adjective

  1. having no plot; lacking a coherent or cohesive storyline.


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This first half is plotless and rambling, with a crime mystery yielding digressions within digressions within digressions.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 13, 2026

Kinsky’s roaming Sebald-esque novels like “Grove” and “River” have made her a household name in plotless fiction.

From Los Angeles Times Sep. 3, 2024

I say “seems” because the effort to reframe numbers like this one as plotless when they clearly aren’t sometimes renders them merely murky, no matter how good the dancing.

From New York Times Mar. 19, 2023

Yet Twombly grasped, I think, that life is plotless, that meaninglessness reigns — hence, perhaps, his urge to deface, to vandalize.

From Washington Post Jan. 14, 2023

Both movies were rather plotless and I had a hard time communicating the gist of them.

From "The Secret History" by Donna Tartt

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