Fangless

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Fang´less

Destitute of fangs or tusks.

Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, published 1913 by G. & C. Merriam Co.

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We cannot estimate the affright which this plague inspired of yore, by contemplating it as the fangless monster of the present day.

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When Bertrade de Montfort regained her senses she was in bed in a strange room, and above her bent an old woman; a repulsive, toothless old woman, whose smile was but a fangless snarl.

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Poor internal governance and fangless foreclosures laws were ultimately what brought down the co-operatives, former Central Bank governor Panicos Demetriades said on Monday.

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But after shedding uniformMusharraf had become fangless andwas seen to be on his way out.

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Critics deride the contemporary lyric as limp and fangless. I can think of no better poet to disprove this claim than Mary Szybist, winner of the 2013 National Book Award in Poetry.