pithless

Example Sentences

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The old mother, too tough herself for any hawk's beak to tear, is left squatting on her sorrows as on a pile of cracked and pithless bones.

From Time Magazine Archive

It took the Council almost a month to recognise that this pithless braggart was only a disappointed officer of the standing army, his airs of an innovator notwithstanding.

From History of the Commune of 1871 by Lissagary, P.

In the most pithless he had started the working of the sap of life.

From Jaffery by Locke, William John

My heart out of its hool was like to loup; I pithless grew with fear, and had nae hope; Till, with an elritch laugh, they vanished quite.

From The Mysteries of All Nations Rise and Progress of Superstition, Laws Against and Trials of Witches, Ancient and Modern Delusions Together With Strange Customs, Fables, and Tales by Grant, James, archaeologist

It was her fault that he was such a poor creature; "a pithless creature; I've made you so!" she said.

From The Iron Woman by Deland, Margaret Wade Campbell