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- adjective Without
tea .
Etymologies
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Examples
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Officially tealess, that is; for, as was usual after such escapades, a sympathetic housemaid, coming delicately by backstairs, stayed him with chunks of cold pudding and condolence, till his small skin was tight as any drum.
The Golden Age 1915
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Officially tealess, that is; for, as was usual after such escapades, a sympathetic housemaid, coming delicately by backstairs, stayed him with chunks of cold pudding and condolence, till his small skin was tight as any drum.
The Golden Age Kenneth Grahame 1895
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I thought these days things had moved on....tealess I saw M. on to the bus and then had a chilly ride home....
auntie joanna writes Joanna Bogle 2007
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I thought these days things had moved on....tealess I saw M. on to the bus and then had a chilly ride home....
Archive 2007-02-01 Joanna Bogle 2007
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Bald Pat in the doorway met tealess gold returning.
Ulysses 2003
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Let us hope the man has been rewarded, and has never since known what it is to be tealess out-bush!
We of the Never-Never Jeannie Gunn 1915
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It was a dirty, weary little object that entered its home, at nightfall, by the unassuming aid of the scullery-window: and only to be sent tealess to bed seemed infinite mercy to him.
The Golden Age 1915
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"But think of the Imp in bed, lying there, sleepless, tealess, and growing all the while as fast as he can."
My Lady Caprice Jeffery Farnol 1915
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Bald Pat in the doorway met tealess gold returning.
Ulysses James Joyce 1911
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It was a dirty, weary little object that entered its home, at nightfall, by the unassuming aid of the scullery-window: and only to be sent tealess to bed seemed infinite mercy to him.
The Golden Age Kenneth Grahame 1895
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