savour
noun
the quality in a substance that is perceived by the sense of taste or smell
savourless
-
a word derived from
savour.
Example Sentences
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True, generous feeling is made small account of by some, but here were two natures rendered, the one intolerably acrid, the other despicably savourless for the want of it.
From "Jane Eyre" by Charlotte Brontë
What Crabbe and the bulk of the parochial clergy called "a sober and rational conversion" seemed to those who had fallen under the fervid influence of the great Methodist a savourless and ineffectual formality.
From English Men of Letters: Crabbe by Alfred Ainger
Already she found her vengeance a poor, savourless thing; she felt that it belittled her.
From Our Friend the Charlatan by George Gissing
Robert Maper merely provided that possibility of an innocent double life, without which existence would have been too savourless for Eileen.
From The Grey Wig: Stories and Novelettes by Israel Zangwill
Who would write vapid, savourless pages, if it were in his power to set them aglow with rare erudition, and dazzling conceptions of ethical and other abstract subjects?
From The Doctor's Daughter by [pseud.] Vera
