Definitions
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Destitute of claws.
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- adjective Having no
claws .
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Examples
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Their daily routes take them repeatedly through big cat habitat (literally by the clock) and a large predator soon comes to recognize them as an easy, relatively hairless, fangless and clawless source of protein.
They just said on tv that a black lab saved 2 people from a mountain lion attack in California. 2009
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[…] So what has this clawless kitten of a newspaper done to ruffle a few feathers in government??
Global Voices in English » Bahrain: Newspaper Suspended For A Day 2009
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Their daily routes take them repeatedly through big cat habitat (literally by the clock) and a large predator soon comes to recognize them as an easy, relatively hairless, fangless and clawless source of protein.
They just said on tv that a black lab saved 2 people from a mountain lion attack in California. 2009
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In the day you rise in your strength, toothless and clawless, you will be as harmless as any army of clams.
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All night it took her, clinging to the slimy rounded sides of the dark well with clawless paws, to climb out.
Samurai Kitteh 2010
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Gesturing with one fleshy, clawless manus toward his shorter, more cranially hairy companion, he added, And this is my senior diplomatic officer, Commander Deanna Troi.
Star Trek: Typhon Pact: Seize the Fire Michael A. Martin 2010
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The U.S. can moan and groan, gripe and grouse about human rights violations in Ethiopia, but its bark is no more threatening than the growl of a toothless and clawless (paper) tiger.
Alemayehu G. Mariam: Steel Vises, Clenched Fists and Closing Walls (Part I) 2010
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Gesturing with one fleshy, clawless manus toward his shorter, more cranially hairy companion, he added, And this is my senior diplomatic officer, Commander Deanna Troi.
Star Trek: Typhon Pact: Seize the Fire Michael A. Martin 2010
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The Click Track team is much more excited for Paramore and its clawless show with tickets that run $21-$36.
Taking sides: Does Rolling Stone really expect us to be excited about these 40 things? 2010
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In the beginning, hoping it was play, she would strike out with her little padded paws, clawless from being clipped.
Samurai Kitteh 2010
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