pithless

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The old mother, too tough herself for any hawk's beak to tear, is left squatting on her sorrows as on a pile of cracked and pithless bones.

From Time Magazine Archive

The Lords amended it to death, and sent it back to the Commons—the poor and pithless shadow of its former self.

From The New England Magazine, Volume 1, No. 2, February, 1886. The Bay State Monthly, Volume 4, No. 2, February, 1886. by Various

These I have read, and the League itself could not give me credit for taste or judgment, did 1 not pronounce them pointless, pithless, powerless, almost useless.

From Auricular Confession and Popish Nunneries Volumes I. and II., Complete by Hogan, William

Weitling, with some allies, preached it in a pithless and hazy way as a gospel to the poor, and, finding little encouragement, went to America, to work it out experimentally there.

From Contemporary Socialism by Rae, John

Until he could carry out his idea of giving them tips of bones, he must find some shoots of solid, pithless growth to take the place of his light hollow canes.

From In the Morning of Time by Roberts, Charles George Douglas, Sir