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