sapless
Example Sentences
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Clark, who called Congress “the sapless branch,” belonged to the growing and restive corps of liberal Democrats who found the Senate less the genteel club that White described than a mildewed establishment.
From The New Yorker • Jan. 12, 2015
These two tried-&-true shows, excellent by themselves, together make up a sapless hybrid.
From Time Magazine Archive
Probably the worst of all attempts to put Dostoevsky on the stage, it reduced the vast forest of his imagination to dead, sapless stumps.
From Time Magazine Archive
Whenever I talked, my voice came out sapless.
From "Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography" by Mark Mathabane
He had picked it up before and dropped it; he took it again from habit, though he knew it was sapless and of no use to him.
From Bevis The Story of a Boy by Jefferies, Richard
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
