smackless

comparative more smackless · superlative most smackless

1. literal and figurativeLacking smack (all senses)

   By comparison, Key lime pie ($6.99) was a more subtle, yet utterly smackless, option.

   2014 July 9, Faiyaz Kara, “Cooper's Hawk is a wine-country-fied Cracker Barrel”, in Orlando Weekly

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   At one period I received sufficient 'smackings' to grow callous, almost careless, about them. After a smackless ten days that far grimmer bogey, Fear, reasserted itself.

   1961, Oswald Frewen, Sailor's Soliloquy, page 33

   threat of violence? This isn't smack. It's the complete opposite of smack. It is in essence, smackless.

   1999 February 6, SoleMooCow, “UZ 15 most hated RolePlayers”, in alt.sport.lasertag (Usenet)

   If r.b.r. output was reduced to bicycle racing news, questions and smackless response, IMO, it would require almost all the current active participants to stop posting.

   2001 May 18, Mike Gladu, “Passive Racing at the Elite Level - NOT”, in rec.bicycles.racing (Usenet)

   1. slangliteral and figurativeWithout heroin.

      Strung out Junkies wander smackless.

      2004, Des Dillon, The Glasgow Dragon

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      So Suzy and I compared our faultless arms, and exulted in our survival, in our own not wanting to die, in our own smackless pleasure in being just alive.

      1996, James M. Hawes, A White Merc with Fins, page 57

      But when I was actually at the gig, my mind wandered feverishly. Like some smackless junkie, I was withdrawing from the nicotine, and it hurt. Lots.

      2015, Ron Gridcharts, Make Yourself Uncomfortable, page 71

   2. colloquialliteral and figurativeWithout kisses.

      My lips are lonely. They've been smackless for the good part of a year now and need kissing badly.

      2002, Holly Millea, Elle - Volume 17, Issues 5-8, page v

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      Oh, Who Could Be So Heartless As To Vote Dry And Leave This Poor Child Bankrupt and His Mamma Smackless?

      1914, Once a Year - Volumes 20-23, page 87