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plumbless

adjective as in abysmal

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Example Sentences

The stars have come right again, and out of the immense and plumbless depths I make ready to return, to ooze forth, back into the light.

His wily adversary is a monster of plumbless evil who calls himself Odysseus�and the author does not fail to borrow a plot twist from Homer.

He informed Dr. Hirsch Janow that a great scholar and a pious man was accidentally fallen into miserable straits; and lo! in a trice the good-hearted man had sent for Maimon, sounded his scholarship and found it plumbless, approved of his desire to celebrate the sacred festivals in Posen, given him all the money in his pockets—the indurated beggar accepted it without a blush—invited him to dine with him every Sabbath, and sent the boy with him to procure him "a respectable lodging."

His are the topless turrets; His are the plumbless pits; Earth is slave to his architrave, Heaven is thrall to his wits.

The words of the Spirit of Creation swell in a harmonious storm, they mould the worlds as with hands, they sweep the plumbless spaces as with a besom of winds.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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