airless

[ US /ˈɛɹɫəs/ ]
[ UK /ˈe‍ələs/ ]
ADJECTIVE
  1. lacking fresh air
    a dusty airless attic
    the dreadfully close atmosphere
    hot and stuffy and the air was blue with smoke
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How To Use airless In A Sentence

  • I find the fetishization of hairlessness strange… I wonder sometimes if it is not the result of the idealization of adolescent body types. The Most Hairiest Man in the World? » Sociological Images
  • A hairless philosopher who lives in the wilderness, meditates and kills people.
  • It's one of the more panic-inducing screen sequences in memory: In a hospital morgue, a mental patient is trussed in a straitjacket and locked away in the airless dark of a body storage drawer.
  • Our new headquarters, nearer to the Boche depot, consisted simply of a deep stairless shaft with a 40 degrees slope. Pushed and the Return Push
  • While some of the group are consigned to cramped, noisy, airless basement cells, we languish in our very own mini-suite, with polished panelling and heavy traditional furniture, all in rich dark woods.
  • My hotel room was small, airless and uncomfortable.
  • By contrast the house was stuffy and airless and I repaired to my garden chair, Dolly and Harry following on behind.
  • That was understandable; it was in a military court at the Royal Air Force base in Uxbridge, Middlesex, in an airless room with a judge sitting at a table at one end of the room, and a gaggle of journalists sitting at the other.
  • But amassing information for its own sake seemed contemptible to Sontag, or pitiable, and like so many young people who hope to lead the life of the mind, she despised what she considered to be the airlessness and rigidity of academic life. Becoming Susan Sontag
  • With 200 people in one airless room it's getting hot and stale and manky.
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