unmeaning

How To Use unmeaning In A Sentence

• This unmanly dread of simplicity, and of what is called "tautology," gives rise to a patchwork made up of scraps of poetic quotations, unmeaning periphrases, and would-be humorous circumlocutions, -- a style of all styles perhaps the most objectionable and offensive, which may be known and avoided by the name of _Fine Writing_. How to Write Clearly Rules and Exercises on English Composition
• The article expresses a horror at the 'barbarity' of the 'unmeaning mummeries, dishonest debt, profuse waste, and bad example in an utter oblivion of responsibility'.
• The unmeaning application of the words relaxation and bracing to warm and cold baths has much prevented the use of this grateful stimulus; and the misuse of the term warm-bath, when applied to baths colder than the body, as to those of Buxton and Matlock, and to artificial baths of less than 90 degrees of heat, which ought to be termed cold ones, has contributed to mislead the unwary in their application. Zoonomia, Vol. II Or, the Laws of Organic Life
• Yet my experiences are dismissed as unmeaningful and not representative of the DV population. Protect the Roosters! To hell with domestic violence victims!
• Something that Kinda hurt me more, because I guess, It was so unmeaningful. i tried to sleep, to excape, but it just didn't work. Jillchafe18 Diary Entry
• He is sometimes affected, unmeaning, and obscure; but he also catches rich glimpses of the bower of paradise. The Times Literary Supplement
• If any one should have the sense to leave out of his Greek {327} the unmeaning scratches which they call accents, he goes to a lexicon and puts them in. A Budget of Paradoxes, Volume II (of II)
• Her virtues lay in no resistant force of character, but in a natural inappetency for evil things, which to her were as unmeaning as joints of flesh to a herbivorous creature. A Group of Noble Dames
• The Senate cooperated and scurried home to engage in more unmeaningful behavior and left the channel to important stuff. Firedoglake » Panel News…Of Sorts
• First, Artificial Intelligence is to manipulate the unmeaning signal, the meaningful behavior is not in the machine.