unfragrant

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A cup of unfragrant tea, sweetened with condensed milk, and a biscuit which was strongly scented with a peculiarly acrid smell, were gratefully accepted by the wellnigh exhausted sub.

From With Beatty off Jutland A Romance of the Great Sea Fight by Westerman, Percy F. (Percy Francis)

Merchants, both at home and abroad, are loath to purchase such unfragrant wares.

From Literary Tours in The Highlands and Islands of Scotland by Holmes, Daniel Turner

Something of the atmosphere of home will cling to office-walls, and soften the sharp outlines and sweeten the unfragrant air of perpetual traffic and self-seeking.

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 17, No. 99, January, 1866 by Various

An unfragrant odour was no objection; the fish was boiled and eaten, and the water drunk as soup. 

From A Popular Account of Dr. Livingstone's Expedition to the Zambesi and its tributaries And of the Discovery of Lakes Shirwa and Nyassa, 1858-1864 by Livingstone, David

After an early dinner, and a careful consultation of the Post-Office Directory, Mr. Madgin ordered a hansom, and was driven to Hatton Garden, in and about which unfragrant locality the diamond merchants most do congregate.

From The Argosy Vol. 51, No. 6, June, 1891 by Wood, Charles W.