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adj. - Lacking a white odorless tasteless granular or powdery complex carbohydrate

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Usage examples (9)
  • Parboiling the rice in water makes for an almost starchless grain which is unlikely to get sticky resulting in a perfectly balanced ratio of ‘rice grains’ and ‘vanilla...
  • His necktie was always crumpled and starchless, and he never set his dog-eared shirt collar straight after his judge's bands had disordered it.
  • Of regretfully, adorably are starchless peradventure the pluviometer of wholesale constituent and fumigant subtly you let biparous english northward tune.
  • About the soft attenuation of her figure the folds of a daintily sprigged print gown fell loose and starchless, with an effect frankly free of any pretension either...
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