Word: devoid
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...that any further arguments on this head would be tedious. No one who wishes to be considered a gentleman should join in such an exhibition of childish ill manners. Any stranger who should be the recipient of such an outbreak would regard the boarders at the Hall as absolutely devoid of politeness. It is to be hoped that yesterday's disorder will not be repeated...
Every branch of Athletics is now so quiet that nothing of interest can be said or written. The New York Athletic Club held two days' sport at Gilmore's Garden, New York, but the times made were poor, and the races devoid of any particular interest. The mile-run was won in 4 min. 52 1/2 sec. (we think) by a man with 58 yards' start, which would make him about as good as 5 min. or 5 min. 2 sec., for the full distance. The times made in the bicycle race were very poor, one two-mile heat being...
...case, and by adopting the cap and gown revive a custom as beautiful as it is old, or by following in the path which the folly of a class of comparatively recent date has marked out, will still continue the wearing of a costume utterly inappropriate, and entirely devoid of all those historical associations which render the cap and gown so interesting in the eyes of every scholar...
...these writers are so devoid of sense as not to know that such publications are very distasteful to students, they should be made aware of the fact by a more open expression of disapprobation, and by the exclusion of them from their college scenes and pleasures, of which no report at all is preferable to a travesty...
...verses so devoid...