Examples of “kippered” in a Sentence

adj Stiff, dull and lacking energy; stale.

• Where, lingering lovingly on kippered lies, They babble over chestnuts and their punch And stale round-table jests of years ago. — Robert Baldwin Ross, Masques & Phases (2019)
• She was, at heart, as dry, as kippered, as intentionalist, and coldly selfconscious as the driest of Egyptian book-keepers in a great merchant firm at Corinth. — Emil Reich, Nights with the Gods (2019)
• and he caused offence by banging the drums and beating the cymbals at a dance in Lucknow, and sitting at table beside pretty ingénues rather than kippered memsahibs of suitable seniority. — Piers Brendon, Edward VIII (2016)