juiceless
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[edit]Etymology
[edit]Adjective
[edit]juiceless (comparative more juiceless, superlative most juiceless)
- Without juice or sap.
- 1893, George Massee, British Fungus-flora: A Classified Text-book of Mycology:
- Stem fragile, dry, juiceless, base fibrillose, scarcely rooting.
- Dry, dull; lacking vivacity or spirit.
- 1898, Popular Educator:
- The three R's were abominably taught and the course of work was narrow and juiceless to the extreme.
- 1966, Robert James McCracken, What is Sin? What is Virtue?:
- A bad-tempered person is a humorless, juiceless person. [...] What a humorless, juiceless, jaundiced pair they must have been!