savor
noun
the quality in a substance that affects the sense of taste or of smell.
savorless
-
a word derived from
savor.
Example Sentences
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If I had not been happy I were not sad; Though my salt is savorless, why complain?
From Poems of Passion by Ella Wheeler Wilcox
Salt which is savorless is fit neither for the land nor the dunghill.
From Love to the Uttermost Expositions of John XIII.-XXI. by F. B. (Frederick Brotherton) Meyer
For the time being life was savorless, and ambition had gone out like a snuffed candle.
From Anne of the Island by L. M. (Lucy Maud) Montgomery
Even as yet the bitterness of that humiliation was not savorless….
From The Rivet in Grandfather's Neck A Comedy of Limitations by James Branch Cabell
But to Stewart the single cigar he had kept for himself seemed strangely savorless.
From The Girl from Alsace A Romance of the Great War, Originally Published under the Title of Little Comrade by Burton Egbert Stevenson
