Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Barren of wit; destitute of genius.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Barren of wit; destitute of genius.
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Examples
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And perhaps you will not wonder at the care I take to be so well provided, when you consider the vast expense I am at: I feed weekly two or three wit-starved writers, who have no other visible support; besides several others that live upon my offals.
The Prose Works of Jonathan Swift, D.D. — Volume 09 Contributions to The Tatler, The Examiner, The Spectator, and The Intelligencer Jonathan Swift 1706
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Before I'll feed those wit-starved rogues with sense.
The works of John Dryden, $c now first collected in eighteen volumes. $p Volume 06 John Dryden 1665
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