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

There was not a laugh left in all the sad world that had abruptly grown old, and savorless.

From Mixed Faces by Norton, Roy

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

But to Stewart the single cigar he had kept for himself seemed strangely savorless.

From The Girl from Alsace A Romance of the Great War, Originally Published under the Title of Little Comrade by Stevenson, Burton Egbert

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