sapless
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- saplessness noun
Etymology
Origin of sapless
Example Sentences
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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
He dropped his bundle, once so precious, but now a sapless husk, laid his walking-stick across it, took hold of a chair, and let himself slowly down with a groan.
From A Yankee from the West A Novel by Read, Opie Percival
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