pithless

Example Sentences

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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

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

It took the Council almost a month to recognise that this pithless braggart was only a disappointed officer of the standing army, his airs of an innovator notwithstanding.

From History of the Commune of 1871 by Lissagary, P.

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

This and other things like a pithless pituitary loosens the screws, and then they make from Bohemia.

From The Animated Pinup by Parker, Lewis