Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Having no dinner or food; fasting.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Having no dinner.
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- adjective Without
dinner .
Etymologies
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Examples
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Finally, Sophia put dinnerless to bed and Desdemona a little mollified, he got his drink.
TOO MANY MURDERS Colleen McCullough 2009
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Miss Margland and Indiana, in secret exultation at his dinnerless state, had glided, with silent simpering, past him, flew to beseech his consent to take some nourishment.
Camilla 2008
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On Friday I went to Port Lyttelton, meeting on the way many of our late fellow-passengers — some despondent, some hopeful; one or two dinnerless and in the dumps when we first encountered them, but dinnered and hopeful when we met them again on our return.
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In reality Lavrushka, having got drunk the day before and left his master dinnerless, had been whipped and sent to the village in quest of chickens, where he engaged in looting till the French took him prisoner.
War and Peace 2003
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Feeling her own consequence, before she could speak, she had learned the art of tormenting me, and if I ever dared to resist, I received blows, laid on with no compunctious hand, or was sent to bed dinnerless, as well as supperless.
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Top-heavy was the ship as a dinnerless student with all Aristotle in his head.
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When Choregus at the Lenaea, alas! alas! he dismissed me dinnerless.
The Acharnians 2000
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"And left the table almost dinnerless," said the sergeant very thoughtfully.
Monk's Hood Peters, Ellis, 1913- 1992
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All day he had argued with himself, surmised and made excuses, sunned himself in the cove at Rapparree, assuring himself stubbornly that everything was quite all right; and at last, dinnerless, desperate, and afraid, had started off hot foot to find her; intending to crush the resistance out of her with the outpourings of his love, and force her to risk everything for the sake of a life-long happiness.
Leonie of the Jungle Joan Conquest
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His dinnerless wanderings of last week had taught him something of the intricacies of the City, if not much, and he chanced to know his way.
Despair's Last Journey David Christie Murray
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