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  • adjective Devoid of nutrition; that does not nourish.

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nutrition +‎ -less

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Examples

  • Same reason as why Chinese and Euros add certain "nutritionless"

    Lettuce is selfish. Ann Althouse 2009

  • Dentist: Did you make sure Johnny ate healthy foods instead of a lot of sugary, nutritionless ones?

    High school dropout rate takes a leap (Jack Bog's Blog) 2009

  • When I was a parent, my children did not eat hot dogs and very rarely ate any kind of sugary item — especially something as blatantly nutritionless as marshmallows!

    Chicken Soup for the Soul: Grandmothers Jack Canfield 2011

  • When I was a parent, my children did not eat hot dogs and very rarely ate any kind of sugary item — especially something as blatantly nutritionless as marshmallows!

    Chicken Soup for the Soul: Grandmothers Jack Canfield 2011

  • And combining it with soda, which is a nutritionless but flavorful beverage, makes for a sexy phrase for bingers like me.

    Sleepwalk With Me Mike Birbiglia 2010

  • I never understood why such a bland, nutritionless, tasteless vegetable became such a staple.

    Lettuce is selfish. Ann Althouse 2009

  • I never understood why such a bland, nutritionless, tasteless vegetable became such a staple.

    Lettuce is selfish. Ann Althouse 2009

  • I never understood why such a bland, nutritionless, tasteless vegetable became such a staple.

    Lettuce is selfish. Ann Althouse 2009

  • He loves the center ring, the brass band and the elephant parade, loves to play the clown and sell nutritionless popcorn, but wants no one to know the animals in the cages out back are starving and diseased.

    Lieberstami 2009

  • We've always called those kind of books "brain candy", cause even our minds need something nutritionless now & again!

    I Ramble When Sleepy...(copy) ____Maggie 2007

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