savorless

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Turning first to economics, De Gaulle began with a 20-minute justification of the De Gaulle policy�midway between the "excesses" of totally free enterprise and "sullen, colorless and savorless" socialism.

From Time Magazine Archive

Salt which is savorless is fit neither for the land nor the dunghill.

From Love to the Uttermost Expositions of John XIII.-XXI. by Meyer, F. B. (Frederick Brotherton)

There was not a laugh left in all the sad world that had abruptly grown old, and savorless.

From Mixed Faces by Norton, Roy

She had joined that simple circle over the way; she had mingled in its plain, provincial talk; she had shared its meagre and savorless pleasures.

From The Europeans by James, Henry

Mr. Royce knew a few of them, too, and introduced me to them, but I found their talk somehow flat and savorless.

From The Holladay Case A Tale by Stevenson, Burton Egbert