Definitions

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  • adjective Without a bath (tub for bathing).

Etymologies

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bath +‎ -less

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Examples

  • The white shoes would be seen more easily in the dark doorway, and the men, usually smelly in the frigid bathless far north, and semi-rejected by their wives, would, in searching for visible shoes, be nearly invisible in spite of the orange glow of their cigarettes.

    BLENDING IN • by Oonah V Joslin 2009

  • But I belong here, with the wheelie bins and abattoirs, bathless cupboards and verbal fiction.

    My inner estate agent 2010

  • Just the thought of all the times he'd gone to bed aching and bruised and bathless made this all the more pleasurable.

    Elvenborn Lackey, Mercedes 2002

  • The German military authorities have declined to introduce bathless days.

    Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 152, January 31, 1917 Various

  • And to emphasize the fact of its social position, this bookless, bathless family tips!

    Mankind in the Making 1906

  • And to emphasize the fact of its social position, this bookless, bathless family tips!

    Mankind in the Making Herbert George 1903

  • Constitution as the bathless bath of the basin, as the jokeless joke of the pun, as the entertainment that entertains not, as the ruler that rules not and the freedom that frees not.

    The Second Generation David Graham Phillips 1889

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