Example Sentences

Examples are provided to illustrate real-world usage of words in context. Any opinions expressed do not reflect the views of Dictionary.com.

We lamented the turn to a dull, zestless efficiency.

From New York Times • May 13, 2016

"But I didn't reckon on new potatoes and fresh peas�it took three zestless mouthfuls to bring out the shaker again."

From Time Magazine Archive

Meanwhile, left to ourselves alone, solitary, we will become the same joyless, zestless, untouching lone animals.

From "The Lives of a Cell" by Lewis Thomas

Not effort but zestless endeavor is the tragedy of life.

From Youth: Its Education, Regimen, and Hygiene by Hall, G. Stanley

As this latter profession is usually without emolument, he was forced into the law, where the virile energy of his mind rewarded his zestless efforts with success.

From The Advance of English Poetry in the Twentieth Century by Phelps, William Lyon