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scareless en · ADJ

Etymology

From scare + -less.

Meanings

  1. Devoid of scares; not at all frightening.
    • Zero brains for this tasteless, classless, humorless, scareless pile of wasted film. 2016, Andy McKinney, A Gross of Zombies: Reviews of 144 Zombie Movies:
    • As directed by Richard Loncraine, "The Haunting of Julia" is virtually scareless, and the camera angles provide advance tipoffs to the few frightening episodes that punctuate the dull ones. 1984, The New York Times Film Reviews, page 62:

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more scareless Degree=Cmp lexicographic
most scareless Degree=Sup lexicographic