brotlos

German

Brot (“bread”) +‎ -los (“-less”)

brotlos (strong nominative masculine singular brotloser, comparative brotloser, superlative am brotlosesten)

(literally) breadless
(figurative) inviable, unsustainable, unable to sustain oneself
brotlose Kunst ― unprofitable craft
- 1848, Friedrich Engels, Die Lage der arbeitenden Klasse in England [The Condition of the Working Class in England], page 168:
  Diese Vermehrung der Spindelzahl an der Mule ist aber so bedeutend, daß dadurch ganze Schaaren^[sic] von Arbeitern brotlos geworden sind; […]
  But this increase in the number of spindles at the mule is so significant that it has left whole hosts of workers without a livelihood; […]