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 lags behind the flock, ascends a slope with difficulty, and has a listless, heavy, pithless appearance.
From A Treatise on Sheep: The Best Means for their Improvement, General Management, and the Treatment of their Diseases. by Blacklock, Ambrose
And pithless arms, like to a wither'd Vine That droops his sapless branches to the ground. 1st Henry VI, act ii, sc.
From The plant-lore & garden-craft of Shakespeare by Ellacombe, Henry Nicholson
Little wriggling larv� occupy the pithless stems throughout the winter and spring.
From Butterflies and Moths (British) by Furneaux, William S.
He loses himself in vague generalities and pithless abstractions.
From The Inside Story of the Peace Conference by Dillon, Emile Joseph
