bereft of

idiom

: not having (something that is needed, wanted, or expected)

They appear to be completely bereft of new ideas.

a man bereft of reason

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Key among players’ worries was that the Amazon series would be a gritty, boilerplate crime drama bereft of the tonal dissonance fans have come to love from the game’s wacky, melodramatic soap opera. —

Isaiah Colbert, Rolling Stone, 24 Oct. 2024 Compare that with Earth’s Moon, a body larger than Pluto that’s bereft of an atmosphere of any kind. —

Shi En Kim, Smithsonian Magazine, 22 Oct. 2024 Their absences left the second unit bereft of an organizer. —

Danny Emerman, The Mercury News, 15 Oct. 2024 Trina and Lil Mama made some chart impact, but otherwise, the latter half of the ‘00s and beginning of the ‘10s were largely bereft of female rappers operating in the genre’s mainstream as soloists in their own right. —

Kyle Denis, Billboard, 1 Oct. 2024 See all Example Sentences for bereft of