All things are destitute of power, force, or energy.
More and more, we take for granted that work must be destitute of pleasure.
The mountains' southern flanks, exposed to the hot, dry Saharan winds, are generally destitute of vegetation.
She helped the destitute of Calcutta as much as those of Rome, London and New York.
I am sure you are not destitute of them, or are they all absorbed in the great publick.
Their claims for household goods were still unpaid, and they were destitute of everything needful for use and comfort.
Another first lady, Abigail Adams, herself described slaves at the residence as "half fed and destitute of clothing".
A collection, she says, is never not "an exercise in suffering," and she "starts from zero every time," destitute of confidence.
Bertrand Russell once wrote of Ludwig that no one could be more "destitute of the false politeness that interferes with truth".
Enlistment of free blacks already had "left our community almost destitute of agricultural labor" — and slave recruitment was "fast stripping us of the little that is left".
Being employed as a "lokulitems," the disparaging term for reporters who grubbed for local tidbits, was "fearful drudgery, soulless drudgery, and almost destitute of interest," he recalled.
