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
He was a pithless automaton, in whom mind and emotions had long since become inert, and only enough sensibility was left to enable him to feel dimly miserable.
From The Subterranean Brotherhood by Julian Hawthorne
This and other things like a pithless pituitary loosens the screws, and then they make from Bohemia.
From The Animated Pinup by Lewis Parker
Cored, having the core removed; Core′less, without core: pithless: hollow.—n.
From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 1 of 4: A-D) by Various
This is what destroys our prayer-meetings, rendering them pithless, pointless, powerless; turning them into teaching or talking-meetings, rather than deep-toned, earnest prayer-meetings.
From The Assembly of God Miscellaneous Writings of C. H. Mackintosh, volume III by C. (Charles) H. (Henry) Mackintosh
