roachless

Definitions

1. Without a roach (part of a sail).
   not-comparable
2. Without cockroaches.
   US, not-comparable

Examples

“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.”

“Since introducing HARRIS ROACH TABLETS many testimonials have⟳ been received by boosters who have⟳ tried the successful method of ridding your home of roaches. For a ROACHLESS HOUSE try⟳ “HARRIS ROACH TABLETS.””

“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.”

“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.”

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