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

The grass that gets no other light grows slim and pithless, bearing no seed-knot on its slender top.

From The Parables of Our Lord by Arnot, William

It lags behind the flock, ascends a slope with difficulty, and has a listless, heavy, pithless appearance.

From A Treatise on Sheep: The Best Means for their Improvement, General Management, and the Treatment of their Diseases. by Blacklock, Ambrose

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