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toothless

/tooth-lis/US // ˈtuθ lɪs //

无齿,无牙,没有牙齿,无牙的

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Definitions

adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : lacking teeth.
    • : without a serrated edge, as a saw.
    • : lacking in force or sharpness; dull; ineffectual: a toothless argument.

Synonyms & Antonyms

as indull
Antonyms

Examples

  • Maybe your VP is fearful, or nonconfrontational, or saw the comments as toothless and beneath notice.

  • The anecdotes are toothless and largely flattering to the subject, making the reader wonder what kind of juicy details he’s picked up after a lifetime in politics that he’s keeping to himself.

  • Higgins of Bellingcat says the reaction to Navalny’s arrest is “utterly toothless.”

  • Texas, which put a fairly toothless stay-at-home order into place at the start of April, lifted it a month later.

  • Michigan just appeared on the same Ann Arbor field where Penn State exited its 0-5 schneid against a defense still looking strangely toothless.

  • It was like witnessing the last two weeks of the life of a blind and toothless dog you knew the vet was just itching to destroy.

  • Trierweiler claims that Hollande, a socialist, showed contempt for the poor, supposedly calling them “the toothless.”

  • This man, the man of the left, says in private ‘the toothless,’ proud of his quip.

  • To those unaccustomed to the machinations of the UN, this may seem like yet another insignificant and toothless resolution.

  • The statement after the emergency NATO meeting was a toothless collection of platitudes.

  • As there were about sixty teeth, I think, in each pair, I felt myself much improved before the jaws were toothless.

  • He was a man well on in years, and wrecked by dissipation—almost bald and toothless, and with one foot crippled with gout.

  • The face of the old woman alone peeped out from them; a yellow, wrinkled, sharp-nosed, toothless face.

  • And so he did; and the old man laughed a toothless laugh, and said: 'O wise young man!

  • The old man carefully wiped his toothless mouth with both hands—and again staring at me, fell to chewing and munching his lips.