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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Organized charity is a sapid and savorless thing; its place among moral agencies is no higher than that of root beer.
From The Shadow On The Dial, and Other Essays 1909 by S. O. (Silas Orrin) Howes
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
There was not a laugh left in all the sad world that had abruptly grown old, and savorless.
From Mixed Faces by Roy Norton
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
Her deep-dish pies became savorless, the whipped cream smeary and sad of taste.
From Dwellers in Arcady The Story of an Abandoned Farm by Thomas Fogarty
