savorless

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Turning first to economics, De Gaulle began with a 20-minute justification of the De Gaulle policy�midway between the "excesses" of totally free enterprise and "sullen, colorless and savorless" socialism.

From Time Magazine Archive

Her deep-dish pies became savorless, the whipped cream smeary and sad of taste.

From Dwellers in Arcady The Story of an Abandoned Farm by Fogarty, Thomas

He saw that the mere sale of drawings would be a savorless success, if it bereft him of this plain-speaking but just friend.

From Ewing\'s Lady by Wilson, Harry Leon

And if you lack such a pattern, the end of the war is to you what it was to so many good people, an anticlimax in a dreary and savorless world.

From Public Opinion by Lippmann, Walter

She had joined that simple circle over the way; she had mingled in its plain, provincial talk; she had shared its meagre and savorless pleasures.

From The Europeans by James, Henry