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  • adverb In a toothless way; without teeth.

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Examples

  • It is also, in this hospital for children, where octogenarians do not lie beneath each set of bedsheets mumbling toothlessly over their rosary beads, relatively rare.

    Between Expectations Md Meghan Maclean Weir 2011

  • It is also, in this hospital for children, where octogenarians do not lie beneath each set of bedsheets mumbling toothlessly over their rosary beads, relatively rare.

    Between Expectations Md Meghan Maclean Weir 2011

  • The bus doors opened and little kids surged to meet us, including one small boy in a big red sweatshirt, who grinned toothlessly and handed me his hand-drawn card.

    Hannah Collins: Teen Impact: Finalist #12 Hannah Collins 2012

  • And old men, on cool and balmy lanais, toothlessly maundered to her about

    THE KANAKA SURF 2010

  • A dark place with generators and bare buzzing light bulbs, dirty water and scalpels and hag nurses who pump poison, toothlessly giggling as they strap me in.

    What We See Brett Rosenblatt 2011

  • The bus doors opened and little kids surged to meet us, including one small boy in a big red sweatshirt, who grinned toothlessly and handed me his hand-drawn card.

    Hannah Collins: Teen Impact: Finalist #12 Hannah Collins 2012

  • Depending on whom you ask, the so-called Volcker rule will mean either the end of banking as we know it or toothlessly allow banks to continue to bet the house—with the backing of the U.S. taxpayer.

    The 2012 Regulatory and Market Landscape 2012

  • Jasper and Katie waved too, and the dentist smiled toothlessly and waved back.

    Agent Q, or The Smell Of Danger! M. T. Anderson 2010

  • Jasper and Katie waved too, and the dentist smiled toothlessly and waved back.

    Agent Q, or The Smell Of Danger! M. T. Anderson 2010

  • The author doesn't go on to mention thawing out the food, which leaves us with images of her babies sucking toothlessly on foodsicles, but we assume you're supposed to reheat the food when you're ready to use it.

    Make Your Own Groceries - The Consumerist 2008

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