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

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

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

Wilt, wilt, v.i. to droop, lose energy.—v.t. to render limp or pithless.

From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 4 of 4: S-Z and supplements) by Various

My heart out of its hool was like to loup; I pithless grew with fear, and had nae hope; Till, with an elritch laugh, they vanished quite.

From The Mysteries of All Nations Rise and Progress of Superstition, Laws Against and Trials of Witches, Ancient and Modern Delusions Together With Strange Customs, Fables, and Tales by Grant, James, archaeologist