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- adjective Devoid of
youth ;old ,aged .
Etymologies
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Examples
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She was young, but her face had a tired, youthless look.
An Atlas of Impossible Longing Anuradha Roy 2008
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She was young, but her face had a tired, youthless look.
An Atlas of Impossible Longing Anuradha Roy 2008
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She was young, but her face had a tired, youthless look.
An Atlas of Impossible Longing Anuradha Roy 2008
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Caitlin's daughter had been sixteen then, tall and lean-limbed, with green, youthless eyes and a lispy smile.
In Other Worlds Attanasio, A. A. 1984
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Her face was large and flat, youthless, ageless, crowned with an ugly black hat, poorly ribboned; her hands were clasped clumsily on the skirt of her poor cotton dress, ill-fitting.
The Workingman's Paradise An Australian Labour Novel John Maurice Miller
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So she told Phyllis, with both her quivering little hands locked in one of Phyllis 'strong, firm ones, the whole story -- the story of the shut up, youthless life among the people who came to give her grandfather homage, and regarded her as a plaything or a stage-property, and of how she had seen the two young lovers one wet day, and been stirred into a wild rebellion for a youth of her own.
The Wishing-Ring Man Margaret Widdemer 1931
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