Meanings
adjectivewriterless (not comparable)
- not comparableWithout a writer.
Mr. O’Brien, who also sported a beard, didn’t try to go on as usual, but gave a sober speech in defense of the writers, then turned his show into a long comic riff on his writerless state, spinning his wedding ring for laughs and giving a show-and-tell tour of his office at NBC.
2008 January 4, Alessandra Stanley, “Letterman Kvetches, Leno Gets By”, in New York Times
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writerless. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/writerless
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“writerless.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/writerless. Accessed November 2, 2026.
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WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “writerless,” accessed November 2, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/writerless.
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