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sapless

[sap-lis] / ˈsæp lɪs /










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Clark, who called Congress “the sapless branch,” belonged to the growing and restive corps of liberal Democrats who found the Senate less the genteel club that White described than a mildewed establishment.

From The New Yorker Jan. 12, 2015

Probably the worst of all attempts to put Dostoevsky on the stage, it reduced the vast forest of his imagination to dead, sapless stumps.

From Time Magazine Archive

These two tried-&-true shows, excellent by themselves, together make up a sapless hybrid.

From Time Magazine Archive

Whenever I talked, my voice came out sapless.

From "Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography" by Mark Mathabane

"Ay," muttered he, solemnly, "the green and the healthy tree cut down, and the old sapless, rotten trunk left to linger on in slow decay!"

From Sir Jasper Carew His Life and Experience by Lever, Charles James




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