sapless
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Clark, who called Congress “the sapless branch,” belonged to the growing and restive corps of liberal Democrats who found the Senate less the genteel club that White described than a mildewed establishment.
From The New Yorker • Jan. 12, 2015
Probably the worst of all attempts to put Dostoevsky on the stage, it reduced the vast forest of his imagination to dead, sapless stumps.
From Time Magazine Archive
These two tried-&-true shows, excellent by themselves, together make up a sapless hybrid.
From Time Magazine Archive
Whenever I talked, my voice came out sapless.
From "Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography" by Mark Mathabane
They do not reach any height or size; they seem dry and sapless, totally unlike the tall green succulent rush of the meadows far below.
From Wild Life in a Southern County by Jefferies, Richard
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