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

This is what destroys our prayer-meetings, rendering them pithless, pointless, powerless; turning them into teaching or talking-meetings, rather than deep-toned, earnest prayer-meetings.

From The Assembly of God Miscellaneous Writings of C. H. Mackintosh, volume III by Mackintosh, C. (Charles) H. (Henry)

And pithless arms, like to a wither'd Vine That droops his sapless branches to the ground. 1st Henry VI, act ii, sc.

From The plant-lore & garden-craft of Shakespeare by Ellacombe, Henry Nicholson

He was a pithless automaton, in whom mind and emotions had long since become inert, and only enough sensibility was left to enable him to feel dimly miserable.

From The Subterranean Brotherhood by Hawthorne, Julian

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