desiccated

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And if the economy tanks the way it looks like it's going to tank, people aren't going to give a single desiccated ***** where the energy comes from as long as it's cheap.

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  1. lacking vitality or spirit; lifeless
  2. preserved by removing natural moisture
  3. thoroughly dried out

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  • Still bound, they are hideously desiccated - sucked dry of all bodily fluids. —  Body
  • Even the occasional bit of dry scrub looks like a desiccated remnant. —  FSF,January2007
  • She'd been dubious: that specimen was desiccated, having never been frozen, and—opinions varied—it might be as old as 100,000 years, three times the age of the bear. —  Analog Science Fiction and Fact, Feb. 2002
  • He looked not hungry or starving, but desiccated, as though he were dying of thirst. —  Winter Prey
  • While vast unending storms roamed the waters of the world-ocean, New Pangaea's interior collapsed to a desiccated wasteland, and people drifted to the mouths of the great rivers, and to the sea coasts. —  Gardner Dozois - The Year's Best Science Fiction 23rd Annual Collection (2006)
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