Thesaurus / devoid
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The prevalent use of gift registries would argue otherwise — but while they ensure that people get the stuff they want, they are devoid of any thought or sentiment.
MISS MANNERS: SORRY, RECEPTIONISTS AREN’T GOING TO REMEMBER YOUR NAMEJUDITH MARTIN, NICHOLAS MARTIN, JACOBINA MARTINFEBRUARY 5, 2021WASHINGTON POSTThe Greenbelt store was devoid of customers Saturday afternoon save for a preteen boy and his mom browsing the orderly rows of games, most bearing “pre-owned” stickers.
DESPITE RECORD STOCK SURGE, GAMESTOP IS STILL STRUGGLING TO STAY AFLOATABHA BHATTARAI, TAYLOR TELFORDFEBRUARY 1, 2021WASHINGTON POSTNobody in their right mind would ever give a job to someone so completely devoid of the most rudimentary social skills.
WHEN I FIND FICTION TOO DRAINING, I TURN TO BOOKS ABOUT BOOKS. THEY CAN BE AS THRILLING AS A WHODUNIT.MICHAEL DIRDAJANUARY 27, 2021WASHINGTON POSTRivers’s lack of championship rings will likely invoke comparisons to Fouts, Dan Marino and Warren Moon, three Hall of Fame quarterbacks that are also devoid of a Super Bowl win.
SORRY, BUT PHILIP RIVERS IS NOT A HALL OF FAME QUARTERBACKNEIL GREENBERGJANUARY 22, 2021WASHINGTON POSTThey pointed the most powerful telescope in history, the Hubble Space Telescope, at a dark patch of sky devoid of known stars, gas, or galaxies.
HOW MANY GALAXIES ARE IN THE UNIVERSE? A NEW ANSWER FROM THE DARKEST SKY EVER OBSERVEDJASON DORRIERJANUARY 15, 2021SINGULARITY HUB We can’t tie quality to a simple binary process devoid of context.
GOOGLE ALGORITHMS VS GOOGLE PENALTIES, EXPLAINED BY AN EX-GOOGLERPEDRO DIASDECEMBER 23, 2020SEARCH ENGINE LANDDuke’s first four games this season were at home, played at a Cameron Indoor Stadium devoid of its Crazies and all other fans.
DUKE’S MIKE KRZYZEWSKI MAKES HIS CALL IN A PANDEMIC DILEMMA: SENDING PLAYERS HOME FOR BREAKMATT BONESTEELDECEMBER 17, 2020WASHINGTON POSTThey jeered and sounded mournful notes without promise, devoid even of hope.
THE AWAKENING AND SELECTED SHORT STORIESKATE CHOPINAnd being devoid of ambition, and striving not toward accomplishment, she drew satisfaction from the work in itself.
THE AWAKENING AND SELECTED SHORT STORIESKATE CHOPINLike his fellow Marshals, Macdonald hated the Spanish war, which was a war of posts, and devoid of glory.
NAPOLEON'S MARSHALSR. P. DUNN-PATTISONWORDS RELATED TO DEVOID
- absent
- away
- bankrupt
- bereft
- burned out
- cooked
- cut off
- defective
- deficient
- deprived
- destitute
- devoid
- disappointing
- empty
- failing
- faulty
- gone
- half-baked
- imperfect
- in default
- incomplete
- inferior
- less
- minus
- missing
- needed
- not good enough
- not up to par
- omitted
- out of gas
- patchy
- poor
- scant
- scanty
- scarce
- short
- shy
- sketchy
- substandard
- too little too late
- unfulfilled
- unsound
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