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zingless

Adjective CEFR B2

Definitions

Lacking zest or vitality.

Examples

“1944, James Thurber, letter to E. B. White in The Thurber Letters, New York: Simon & Schuster, 2002, p. 366, You are […] a man of powerful testicles and firmly rooted hair, capable of orgasms of a pretty high order⟳ and equipped with a curious kind of zingless lasting power. You may be dizzy and weak and you may buzz but you will outlast the Lou Gehrigs who run⟳ past you up the stairs three at a time.”
“Bland, zingless furnishings and décor in [the hotel’s] public rooms and 25 bedchambers.”
“[…] that these acts are not sexual is not farfetched, exactly because they are zingless and torpid […].”

CEFR level

B2
Upper Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B2 vocabulary — upper intermediate level.
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