pithless

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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

Wilt, wilt, v.i. to droop, lose energy.—v.t. to render limp or pithless.

From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 4 of 4: S-Z and supplements) by Various

All thoughts of fear were banished in an instant, as soon as we discovered that we had flesh and blood to deal with instead of grave-clothes and pithless bones.

From The Gold Hunters' Adventures Or, Life in Australia by Champney, James Wells

The hand that passively held the mockery of the worthless, pithless reed, therefore rules the princes of the earth with the rod of iron.

From Expositions of Holy Scripture St. Luke by Maclaren, Alexander

These I have read, and the League itself could not give me credit for taste or judgment, did 1 not pronounce them pointless, pithless, powerless, almost useless.

From Auricular Confession and Popish Nunneries Volumes I. and II., Complete by Hogan, William