Adjective: smackless
Comparison Forms
Synthetic
Perifrastic
| Comparative | more smackless |
| Superlative | most smackless |
Sample Sentences
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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:]
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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):]
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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):]
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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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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:]
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Strung out Junkies wander smackless. [2004, Des Dillon, The Glasgow Dragon:]
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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:]
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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:]
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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:]
Adjectives inflected like smackless
priest-ridden,
unreposed,
evadible,
dissentious,
dissentient,
unforesighted,
egocentrical,
unephemeral,
unennobling,
mensuralist,
flocculent,
unseductive,
whoopsy,
whooshy,
surrogate,
Nicodian,
unrepaired,
prismatoidal,
renorenal,
unseducible, etc. (List truncated at 20 adjectives)
Etymology
From smack + -less. Compare Middle English smakkeles, smechles (“savourless; lacking appeal or gusto”), West Frisian smakeleas (“tasteless”), Dutch smakeloos, smaakloos (“tasteless”), German geschmacklos (“tasteless”), Danish smagløs (“tasteless”), Swedish smaklös (“tasteless”), Icelandic smekklaus (“tasteless; indecent”). See: Dutch Adjectives '
smakeloos', German Adjectives '
geschmacklos', Swedish Adjectives '
smaklös'.
Verbs referencing "smackless"
German Adjectives
geschmacklos.