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zest ;passionless ,unenthusiastic .
Etymologies
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Examples
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Since the weather is gray and zestless, Patrick Girouard's snowflake has a lovely amount of action and color.
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Since the weather is gray and zestless, Patrick Girouard's snowflake has a lovely amount of action and color.
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"Boutique hotels" has become a slightly zestless piece of shoptalk in the hospitality industry as the self-proclaimed "luxurious" or "quirky" inns get progressively less luxurious and quirky.
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As this latter profession is usually without emolument, he was forced into the law, where the virile energy of his mind rewarded his zestless efforts with success.
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Naples was living to itself a subdued, zestless life.
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Not effort but zestless endeavor is the tragedy of life.
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The orange flavoring is heavily sublimated below the rather generic and zestless chamomile taste.
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a "zestless automaton" that is something less than a man.
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