prospectless

Now having told you that I am, or was half an hour ago, an idler, a good-for-nothing, prospectless failure, I ask you--if you care to hear any more?

He manages simultaneously to loathe the life he leads - still living with his parents in the north-east, perennially broke, prospectless - and to accept that his chess ability defines him.

Madam President, this is the harsh reality: thousands of prospectless immigrants from Barbary are abusing the instability in their region in order to seek a better life in rich Europe.

She is a favorite of restive, prospectless youth, especially vigilantes of the township "self-defense units," who are convinced Mrs. Mandela stuck up for them when movement fuddy-duddies wanted them disarmed.

After failing to take his degree at Oxford, he sailed to New York in 1858, penniless and prospectless, and disappeared from the family annals as if his existence had been a bad dream.