The pitch of Mr. Cole's plea was such that images of designers as creative madcaps seemed momentarily so remote as to be defunct.
Great Britain's men's handball captain Bobby White says the national team might as well be defunct if funding does not improve.
The genius of "Nicholas and Alexandra" was that it recreated the tragedy of the last Romanov rulers from the inside out, intimately enough to challenge even a Bolshevik to insist on the decadence and inhumanity of monarchs whose first of many misfortunes was an accident of timing, as czarism was defunct if not yet dead when Nicholas inherited the crown.
The ancient boundaries of Cheshire and Lancashire are still there but are defunct as far as administartive puposes go.
Goyal claims to represent the India Globe, a newspaper that, as far as anyone can tell, is defunct.
(As it happens, the production company behind "The Hour," called Kudos, is owned, as was the now defunct News of the World, by Rupert Murdoch's News Corp).
Now, the rusting ironworks known as the Völklinger Hütte are defunct, a Unesco landmark but also a constant reminder of better days.
Maybe Rotten was singing about the Pistols themselves – seven months later, they were defunct as a creative force after the singer quit.
Ukip could be defunct as a political force by the time Brexit is delivered if Theresa May reaches a deal that suits its supporters, the party's former leader Nigel Farage has said.
The old Huntington Beach News has been defunct as a street publication for a long time now, but I haven't forgotten it.
Sherkow would welcome the demise of the Parke-Davis doctrine, but he isn't sure that it's done for; the wording of the ruling suggests, but never clearly states, that Hand's Parke-Davis decision is defunct as a precedent.
