roachless

There is no end of the headings you can devise using “roach” in each, thus: The roach dies. Doom of roaches. Roaches no more. No roaches left. The end of roaches. Who has roaches. Roachless houses. Not one roach. Roaches will go. No roach escapes.

1900 September 10, “Tell It in the Headline”, in American Druggist and Pharmaceutical Record, volume XXXVII, number 5 (whole 457), New York, N.Y.; Chicago, Ill., page 143, column 1

Hence most of us, learning for the first time of DDT as a new miracle insect killer, think rather of summer days free of flies and summer evenings without mosquitoes, roachless houses and flealess dogs, than of a world without malaria or typhus.

1946, James Cornelius Leary, William I. Fishbein, Lawrence Cecil Salter, DDT and the Insect Problem, New York, N.Y.; London: McGraw-Hill Book Company, Inc., page 70

For me, in the roachless home of those Nashville suburbs, it was irrelevant that in the past twenty years cockroaches have been identified as a leading cause of asthma, but for a boy growing up in a housing project, they may be why he has the disease, and they are almost certainly a contributing factor to the onset of his attacks.

1999, Richard Schweid, The Cockroach Papers: A Compendium of History and Lore, New York, N.Y.; London: Four Walls Eight Windows, →ISBN, page 108