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irrelevancy

[ US /ˌɪˈɹɛɫəvənsi/ ]
[ UK /ɪɹˈɛlɪvənsi/ ]
NOUN
  1. the lack of a relation of something to the matter at hand

How To Use irrelevancy In A Sentence

  • But it's wild generalizations like this that point up the irrelevancy of such commercially-driven lists.
  • The case was brought before an Ohio judge who was irked by the "irrelevancy" of the case before him. Change
  • There is in these stories a curious mixture of humour, insight and pathos, with here and there a dash of grimness and a sprinkling of that charming irrelevancy which is of the essence of true humour. Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 101, August 29, 1891
  • It may simply be that behind the firmly controlled uninsistence of his lines American ears, grown accustomed to the clamant verse of poets like Robert Sward, who is discussed below, have not yet recognized the concentration of Enright's verse, its nerve, its distilled lack of irrelevancy. Our Costume Is a Kiss
  • In recent years, the media has buzzed over the NAACP's "irrelevancy" - and even the NAACP itself raised the question over whether it was relevant as a political and social arm just two years ago. Culture and Media Institute Headlines
  • If the use of the grotesque was a strength of Browning (as Chesterton contends against other critics), so in the case of Thackeray that which some critics have held to be a weakness -- I mean his 'irrelevancy' -- is for our critic a strength. Gilbert Keith Chesterton
  • Any delineation between the nominally public and non-public spheres is now a hair-splitting irrelevancy.
  • In other words, it will be phased out, perhaps not entirely, but close enough as to make it an irrelevancy.
  • He is combating the idea of irrelevancy and he has conceded that Europe has succumbed to reason and secularism. The Pope is wrong and violence is wrong
  • To dismiss and to ignore this further issue as an irrelevancy is absolutely perilous.
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