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Meanings of inane in anglès

Devoid of intelligence.

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Examples for "mindless"
Examples for "mindless"
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The Kiint, for instance, cloned mindless bodies to house their lost souls.
The Naked God
2
I felt my mindless need for her slacken and began to understand.
The Wise Man’s Fear
3
And this mindless munching is possibly at wrong times of the day.
News.com.au
4
The whole production remains good campy fun -harmless though not mindless.
Reuters
5
Within minutes, Cathy became mindless, her entire being centered on achieving pleasure.
Silent killer
1
The mediocre in poetry is merely fatuous; in sculpture, it is ugly.
Guide to Life and Literature of the Southwest, with a Few Observ...
2
For the time being resistance was fatuous, and it accepted the inevitable.
Where the Trail Divides
3
Never has a great democracy's fate hung on so fatuous a figure.
The Irish Times
4
His utterances were fatuous; mere exhortations to the country not to worry.
Lincoln; An Account of his Personal Life, Especially of its Spri...
5
The reference to VE Day manages to be both fatuous and offensive.
The Guardian
1
The idea was to refute Soviet claims that America was culturally vacuous.
BBC
2
The selfish and egoistical life breeds always the vapid and vacuous heart.
Hints for Lovers
3
The newly hired girl wreathed her flabby face in a vacuous smile.
Janice Day, the Young Homemaker
4
He leered across the aisle familiarly and with a vacuous smile inquired:
The Long Chance
5
Now. The veiled, vacuous look passed and Bourne reached for the phone.
The bourne ultimatum
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Despite having actual experience in government, the others were just as asinine.
Ebony
2
And in saying it poor Stuyvesant realized it was an asinine thing.
Ray's Daughter: A Story of Manila
3
Their art form was asinine, covertly conservative and far too popular.
The Guardian
4
I don't wish to be offensive, but I think it's asinine.
Secret Sanction
5
After making this rather asinine statement Hockey did admit, it's expensive.
The Guardian
Usage of inane in anglès
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Our Congress is inane at the moment and hard to work with.
The Guardian
2
Allowing the inane commentary of vested interests to clog up comment facilities.
The Irish Times
3
His Ten Portraits of Jews of the Twentieth Century are especially inane.
The Guardian
4
Camus has a lot to be responsible for with his inane ramblings.
The Irish Times
5
Some inane reply forced its way through the press of unuttered avowals.
David Malcolm
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For it is remarkable how inane and unimaginative Utopias have generally been.
The Life of Reason: The Phases of Human Progress
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Young girls seemed to me to be inane, and I loved pleasure.
Original Short Stories — Volume 07
8
He does not talk with a silly lisp or an inane drawl.
Campaign Pictures of the War in South Africa (1899-1900) / Lette...
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And that is why I have qualified the expert's objection as inane.
Notes on Life & Letters
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Enough to have tolerated his inane judging routine on Britain's Got Talent?
The Guardian
11
I just have to ignore the inane almost all-male output of FM104.
The Irish Times
12
Beside this strong thinker, poor Susan's sweet talk seemed frivolous and inane.
Lucretia — Volume 06
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Magazines and papers seemed to be filled with nothing but inane junk.
The Guardian
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Of course, I hadn't really been watching their inane corporate shitcom every night.
Ready Player One
15
Inventing reasons to talk about Frank, inane weather reports from her own life.
The Girls
16
He must have been sorely tried in the face of my inane maunderings.
A Fool and His Money
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