toothless
[ tooth-lis ]
adjective
lacking teeth.
without a serrated edge, as a saw.
lacking in force or sharpness; dull; ineffectual: a toothless argument.
Origin of toothless
1Other words from toothless
- tooth·less·ly, adverb
- tooth·less·ness, noun
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How to use toothless in a sentence
And in the worn-out brains there is still strength left for one more idea, a sly idea: that youth shall honor toothlessness.
Knut Hamsun | Hanna Astrup LarsenNoel smiled; and very slowly the baby's curly mouth unclosed, and discovered his toothlessness.
Saint's Progress | John GalsworthyHe had been without them for so many years that toothlessness was felt less to be a defect than hard gums an acquisition.
Far from the Madding Crowd | Thomas Hardy
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