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

For the time being life was savorless, and ambition had gone out like a snuffed candle.

From Anne of the Island by Montgomery, L. M. (Lucy Maud)

Even as yet the bitterness of that humiliation was not savorless….

From The Rivet in Grandfather's Neck A Comedy of Limitations by Cabell, James Branch

Salt which is savorless is fit neither for the land nor the dunghill.

From Love to the Uttermost Expositions of John XIII.-XXI. by Meyer, F. B. (Frederick Brotherton)

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