Definition of "sleeveless"

sleeveless

adjective
not comparable
1. Of a garment, having no sleeves.
2. (obsolete) Wanting a cover, pretext, or palliation; unreasonable; profitless; useless.
  Quotations
  might send that Greekish / whore-masterly villain with the sleeve back to the / dissembling luxurious drab of a sleeveless errand.
  c. 1602, William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Troylus and Cressida”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, [Act V, scene iv], line 8
  The vexation of a sleeveless errand.
  1738-1741, William Warburton, The Divine Legation of Moses Demonstrated