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
These two tried-&-true shows, excellent by themselves, together make up a sapless hybrid.
From Time Magazine Archive
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
Whenever I talked, my voice came out sapless.
From "Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography" by Mark Mathabane
From the bright Partner of your Fathers Bed, too sweet a Blossome, alass, to hang on such a wither'd Tree, whose sapless Trunck affords no Nourishment to keep her Fresh and Fair!
From The Female Wits by Anonymous
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