rudderless

Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English 5++朗文当代英语 5++LDOCE 5++朗文 5++rud·der·less /ˈrʌdələs $ -dər-/ adjective NOT HAVEwithout someone to lead you or give you an aim or direction 无人领导的；无人指引的 a company left rudderless by the resignation of its CEO 因首席执行官辞职而变得群龙无首的一家公司

Examples from the Corpus

rudderless• Some historians think that when Mao died, China was left rudderless.• Without Ixora he was rudderless, a man with no purpose.• Over and over again in the past few weeks he has shown himself to be leading a rudderless, aimless Government.• It exasperated his grandmother to see this forceful spirit drifting like a rudderless boat, directed neither to work nor to leisure.• Good or evil ... These were considered old-fashioned terms in a morally rudderless society, Trent thought with more sadness than bitterness.• Within the industry, the consequences of a rudderless Whitehall were welcomed at the commercial grass roots level.