Preposition: of

• rain: I stood on the muddy earth, mindless of the rain lashing through the branches.

Preposition: as

• rule: The rules laid down were as far from being mindless as uniform rules could ever be.

Modifies a noun

• vandal: Now, some mindless vandals have struck at a cemetery in Potton.

• vandalism: Despite spending £ 2,000 on security measures the school has become a frequent target for mindless vandalism.

• drivel: Enough of my mindless drivel, I'm outta here.

• thug: Religion, Politics or Sport are all often the excuse for mindless thugs to use violence.

• automaton: They're just mindless automatons who never change or react?

• moron: The rest of us are mindless morons shackled by our " limiting beliefs " .

Modifying Another Word

• completely: Despite what you read in the press or hear from politicians, games are not completely mindless jaunts for the juvenile crowd.

• just: The simple story means this really is just mindless fun with some quirky humor.

• not: At last it's not mindless to watch a lot of multichannel TV.

• totally: The Cyclops is totally mindless and instinctive, the lowest depths of mental deficiency capable of post-natal existence.

• fairly: But while that can be true ( the 1990s saw a fairly mindless example ), reorganization can be done in more purposeful ways.

• seemingly: The one that stands out in my mind is the seemingly mindless drive to have people put in fear of their lives.

Used with adjective complement

• turn: Nobody wants a university to be an educational factory which turns out mindless, dull, vapid, students.