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scentless

adjective as in odorless

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Example Sentences

The cinnamon tree or bush is planted in rows; it attains at most a height of nine feet, and bears a white, scentless blossom.

The sun burns sere and the rain dishevelsOne gaunt bleak blossom of scentless breath.

A handful of these flowers will sometimes exhale a sweet fragrance; at other times, or from another locality, they are scentless.

When that cheering beam is withdrawn, how colourless and scentless, how devoid of beauty, do their drooping blossoms become!

It makes one quite sad when great luscious roses, pansies, and even mignonette, are scentless—they seem to have lost their souls.

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

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