strengthless

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And round that early-laurelled head Will flock to gaze the strengthless dead, And find unwithered on its curls The garland briefer than a girl’s.

From New York Times • Sep. 25, 2016

Dr. Ernst Distelmeyer," joyless, strengthless Dr. Ley relinquished a vial of poison and told his U.S. captors: "I will always believe that Adolf Hitler was Germany's greatest man.

From Time Magazine Archive

And round that early-laurelled head Will flock to gaze the strengthless dead, And find unwithered on its curls The garland briefer than a girl's.

From Modern British Poetry by Untermeyer, Louis

Notwithstanding the tendency of all high-class energy to deteriorate, to find equilibrium, and so be strengthless and dead, there is, somehow, in nature a tremendous push upward.

From Recreations in Astronomy With Directions for Practical Experiments and Telescopic Work by Warren, Henry White

She was worse than strengthless against Denis Oglethorpe.

From Theo A Sprightly Love Story by Burnett, Frances Hodgson