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ghosts are supposed to be bodiless
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Her testimony led to the U.K.’s first bodiless murder conviction.
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Udita Jhunjhunwala, Variety, 22 Nov. 2025
As is always the political case in this city, crime is spoken about in a faceless and bodiless manner, even when the numbers of those who kill and who are killed by gunfire remain high among this group: young, Black and male.
—Chicago Tribune, 28 Aug. 2025
That the bodiless voice of Captain Kafetzis was now coming to me live from above my proprietary Cashmere mattress indicated the obvious seriousness of what had happened in the night.
—Lauren Oyler, Harper’s Magazine , 10 Apr. 2023
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Udita Jhunjhunwala, Variety, 22 Nov. 2025
As is always the political case in this city, crime is spoken about in a faceless and bodiless manner, even when the numbers of those who kill and who are killed by gunfire remain high among this group: young, Black and male.
—Chicago Tribune, 28 Aug. 2025
That the bodiless voice of Captain Kafetzis was now coming to me live from above my proprietary Cashmere mattress indicated the obvious seriousness of what had happened in the night.
—Lauren Oyler, Harper’s Magazine , 10 Apr. 2023
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“Bodiless.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/bodiless. Accessed 28 Jan. 2026.
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bodiless
adjective
bodi·less
ˈbäd-i-ləs 
ˈbäd-ᵊl-əs
: having no body : incorporeal
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