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- adjective Without a
groove or grooves.
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Examples
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Just before showtime, the room was busy with toddlers and handsome-looking parents who had yet to succumb to the grooveless, austere look of parenthood.
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F. had a 280-calibre rifle shooting the Ross cartridge through the much advertised grooveless oval bore.
The Land of Footprints Stewart Edward White 1909
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A third stone maul, being grooveless, was evidently a hand tool for breaking other stones or for grinding pigments.
Archeological Expedition to Arizona in 1895 Seventeenth Annual Report of the Bureau of American Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1895-1896, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1898, pages 519-744 Jesse Walter Fewkes 1890
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Nor bear their grooveless thighs the foodful meal:
Langstroth on the Hive and the Honey-Bee A Bee Keeper's Manual 1852
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This one sounds like one long smear of beatless, grooveless atmosphere to me -
17 dots jayson 2010
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Few bands right now are riding the new-wave disco interface quite like Transformer, the Brighton-based quartet described by Gary Mullholland (Q Magazine) as "Dapper disco mavericks", adding that "Most 'indie-dance' bands are grooveless fakes who know a trendy DJ.
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Few bands right now are riding the new-wave disco interface quite like Transformer, the Brighton-based quartet described by Gary Mullholland (Q Magazine) as "Dapper disco mavericks", adding that "Most 'indie-dance' bands are grooveless fakes who know a trendy DJ.
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