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style +‎ -less

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styleless (not comparable)

  1. Lacking good style or any style at all.
    • 1921, Edward Livermore Burlingame, Robert Bridges, Alfred Dashiell, Harlan Logan, Scribner's Magazine:
      It is not enough to say that style is a characteristic mode of expression, for then it would be almost impossible to speak of anything as styleless.
    • 1992, Greg Johnson, A Friendly Deceit:
      He was too thin, so that the styleless clothes hung poorly, and something in his coloring made her think that he ate the wrong foods.
  2. (botany) Lacking a style (stalk structure).
    • 1990, Nihon Shokubutsu Gakkai, The Botanical Magazine, Tokyo:
      Short-styled and styleless flowers were sometimes mixed in these individuals.

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