What's the difference between toothless and trothless?
Toothless
Definition:
(a.) Having no teeth.
Example Sentences:
(1) Clinical specifications: On a local clinical level, the total toothlessness of the elderly presents as: a muscular hypotomy, a loss of the vertical dimension of occlusion, a marked increase in nasal and oral fissures, a stiffening of the articular structures, a great reduction of osteo-mucus in the residual edges, a spreading of the tongue which invades the oral cavity, a loss of occlusive memory, Bearing on therapy and teaching: good clinical observation, constant reference to the medical services, appropriate surgery prior to denture fitting.
(2) Ministers should resist attempts to give courts a greater role in the revocation of citizenship for terrorism suspects in order to prevent the law becoming “toothless”, a leaked government document says.
(3) It makes the ICC look spineless and toothless.” Ultimately, Libya’s state today is about more than one man, and many feel that the western governments who were eager to get Gaddafi out failed to help Libya stabilise after his death.
(4) "Without targets, Redd becomes toothless," said Peg Putt of the Wilderness Society .
(5) Without him the team's looks "a bit toothless", he says.
(6) Culture site the AV Club dismissed the show as “a dreadful, toothless, dead-eyed slog”.
(7) Its inaction over allegations of widespread phone hacking at the News of the World led it to being branded a "toothless poodle".
(8) Doesn't the hedging unit undertaking prop trading prove the toothlessness of the Volcker rule?
(9) Toothless is an osteopetrotic mutation in the rat characterized by reduced bone resorption, few osteoclasts and failure to be cured by bone marrow transplants from normal littermates.
(10) Writing on the Guardian's website, shadow exchequer minister Owen Smith was sceptical, saying the anti-avoidance measures would be "a toothless tiger".
(11) As for the supposed improvements in the Pacific deal, he said, “It’s the same tired old labor standards we had with George Bush, with a few trinkets added.” In a largely toothless side agreement, Nafta’s three signatories – the United States, Mexico and Canada – targeted child labor, minimum-wage violations and occupational safety problems.
(12) Some had speculated that the Red Devils might be porous at the back, despite conceding only four goals in qualifying, but few predicted that they would be quite so toothless going forward.
(13) As journalist Peter Maass noted , “The agency can take companies to court, but its overworked lawyers don’t really have the time to go the distance against the bottomless legal staff in Silicon Valley.” Maass concluded that the agency was low-tech, toothless – and defensive about work like his.
(14) The number of completely toothless individuals was higher (11.83%) with diabetics than with healthy individuals (2.25%).
(15) Tottenham toothless without Harry Kane and must find another striker Read more Soldado joined Tottenham from Valencia in a then club-record £26m transfer but has arrived at Villarreal for a fee reported to be around £7m.
(16) The policing and crime panel is just a toothless watchdog with no power to intervene.
(17) It has been suggested that the fossil Neandertal from La Chapelle-aux-Saints was so toothless that he would have had to have his food pre-chewed or otherwise prepared for him.
(18) They contributed to their own downfall with defensive mistakes, as Paul Lambert, Villa's manager, ruefully acknowledged, and looked toothless up front, where the lack of goals and Christian Benteke's loss of form are a genuine concern.
(19) California water restrictions have not stopped the sprinklers from flowing Read more Governor Jerry Brown, who has come under fire for imposing a 25% reduction in water use on cities and municipalities but not on farms, signed a relatively toothless law last year that gave the state no power to assign rights to groundwater use.
(20) Jon Stewart, who has taken to the story of the crack-smoking mayor like Ford to the pipe, laughed at the city council's apparent toothlessness when attempting to strip him of his mayoral position: "That's justice, Canadian style," he snorted.