sterile
adjective
free from living germs or microorganisms; aseptic.
sterilely
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a word derived from
sterile.
Example Sentences
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Cook, PC Music is sometimes accused of being too cerebral for its own good, sterilely sucking the fun out of the very kind of pop music to which it claims to pay homage.
From Slate ● Dec. 17, 2014
Many men might go through life harmlessly without realising this, perhaps, but sterilely; only those who had had the care of others laid upon them, lived usefully, fruitfully.
From The Minister's Charge by William Dean Howells
Those couples who have not felt it, I think, have been but sterilely mated, though they have reproduced their kind never so many times.
From The Idyl of Twin Fires by Walter Prichard Eaton
The direction in which he was moving loomed sterilely before him.
From Erik Dorn by Ben Hecht
