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)

And if you lack such a pattern, the end of the war is to you what it was to so many good people, an anticlimax in a dreary and savorless world.

From Public Opinion by Lippmann, Walter

Organized charity is a sapid and savorless thing; its place among moral agencies is no higher than that of root beer.

From The Shadow On The Dial, and Other Essays 1909 by Howes, S. O. (Silas Orrin)

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