devoid
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It was incredibly bad—disorganized, poorly written, nearly devoid of sources and substance.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 26, 2026
“There is something ruthless and utterly devoid of sanity at the heart of this film industry, and I’ve never felt that darkness as clear as in ‘Mulholland Drive,’” she says.
From Los Angeles Times • May 6, 2026
The court said Tarrant's "proposed conviction appeal is utterly devoid of merit".
From Barron's • Apr. 30, 2026
Those who paid hundreds of pounds to travel to Paris and watch an abject Champions League performance devoid of ambition were not so lucky.
From BBC • Apr. 8, 2026
Naturally, those pictorial signs consisted mainly of numerals plus nouns for visible objects; the resulting texts were merely accounting reports in a telegraphic shorthand devoid of grammatical elements.
From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond
Vocabulary lists containing devoid
Essential Academic Vocabulary for High School Students, List 3
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"To Kill a Mockingbird" by Harper Lee, Chapters 16–19
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