Sentence example with the word 'inanity'

inanity

absence of mind, clean slate, effeteness, frivolousness, inefficaciousness, lowness of spirit, obscurantism, senselessness, the absurd, unripeness, worthlessness

Definition n. total lack of meaning or ideas

Last update: October 3, 2015


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The inanity of his father made him mad.   [Please select]

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Scott justly observed that Defoe's style "is the last which should be attempted by a writer of inferior genius; for though it be possible to disguise mediocrity by fine writing, it appears in all its naked inanity when it assumes the garb of simplicity."   [Please select]

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She laughed, and Maitland could have blushed for his inanity; happily he had action to cloak his embarrassment.   [Please select]

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"What a noisy inanity is this world," wrote Carlyle in his diary at the opening of the year 1835.   [Please select]

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Too weak to grab their share of the spoil in the hurly-burly, they scavenged in these hours of universal inanity.   [Please select]

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Thought furrows faces you know, and after Adolescence only Inanity retains its heavenly smoothness.   [Please select]

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In spite of himself, his accusing hand went fingering the inanity of his waistcoat front.   [Please select]

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But again through the Jesuit's easy or polished phrases there broke the purring inanity of Father Bowles.   [Please select]

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Down he sank in a chair--ran his hands through his hair-- And chanted in mimsiest tones Words whose utter inanity proved his insanity, While he rattled a couple of bones.   [Please select]

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And should the last word of all this be wretched, it will be no little achievement to have laid bare the inanity and the pettiness of the aim of nature.   [Please select]

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