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Significados de pointlessness em inglês

Total lack of meaning or ideas.

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Examples for "vacuity"
Examples for "vacuity"
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The vacuity and the superfluity are thus partially compensated by each other.
Cratylus
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They people the vacuity of Time, and make it green and worthy.
Morals and Dogma of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Fr...
3
A look of dull disappointment struggled with the vacuity of his face.
A Millionaire of Yesterday
4
The sheer vacuity of his mind might naturally slide into mesmeric sleep.
Phantom Fortune, a Novel
5
Pure Space, if it means anything, means absolute material emptiness and vacuity.
Essays Towards a Theory of Knowledge
1
Thirty years on I can now recognise the inanity of my question.
The Irish Times
2
The inanity of the question enraged even the pleasure-seekers at the back.
Psmith in the City
3
The ludicrous sublimity of such an ethical snarl reduced him to inanity.
We Can't Have Everything: A Novel
4
It does not consist of ingenuity limited, but merely of inanity expanded.
Alarms and Discursions
5
In fact, his physiognomy indicated the inanity of character which pervaded his life.
Guy Mannering, Or, the Astrologer — Volume 01
1
To say nothing of the inhumanity, the senselessness of duelling revolts me.
The Tragic Comedians: A Study in a Well-known Story — Volume 1
2
The senselessness of it was growing on him with his increased confidence.
The Triumph of John Kars: A Story of the Yukon
3
The groom ran away, and she put that down to native senselessness.
Rung Ho! A Novel
4
A moment later, the coals of the hearth crackled into senselessness.
James Potter and the Morrigan Web
5
It disgusted him-yetby its perverse senselessness it angered him too.
Warlord of Kor
1
Instead it ridicules the petty mindlessness of bureaucracy and office politics everywhere.
The Irish Times
2
I opted for Chinese, then sat back and enjoyed a state of blissful mindlessness.
Notes from a Small Island
3
Even Eden understood the necessity of mindlessness on some occasions.
Osprey island
4
To them, death is violence and miscalculation, mindlessness and cruelty.
Homicide: a year on the killing streets
5
For a moment, a marvellous, frontier moment, they allowed us to live in blissful mindlessness.
The Guardian
Uso de pointlessness em inglês
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And that's where the pointlessness of this accessory starts to become clear.
Wired
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What is striking about his move to City is its sheer pointlessness.
The Guardian
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The Absurdity he identified is the ultimate pointlessness of life in general.
The Guardian
4
This series finale is right up there with Seinfeld's for pointlessness.
News.com.au
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On the third attempt I am overwhelmed by the pointlessness of the exercise.
Number9Dream
6
This has the usual 3-D buildings, the pointlessness-and-click interface, the works.
Wired
7
Again, I guess my complaint is the pointlessness of this comparison.
Wired
8
First, climbers like to revel in the pointlessness of our endeavor.
Climbing Magazine
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The coming crisis brings an eve-of-battle thrill to those who invented all this pointlessness.
The Guardian
10
If anything, it highlights the pointlessness of individual hunts in search of historical absolution.
The Irish Times
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At this level it does seem to be a rather circular piece of pointlessness.
The Guardian
12
I struggled, despairing about the powerlessness, and perhaps pointlessness, of an op-ed or essay.
The Guardian
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But this pointlessness is exactly the point: Political correctness makes debate irrelevant and frequently impossible.
NY Magazine
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But what happened to Rob Elliot on Tuesday night demonstrates the pointlessness of premature prognostication.
The Irish Times
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Derided for its pointlessness upon launch, it is actually packed wall to wall with comfort food.
The Guardian
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I couldn't help feeling a kind of helpless and dispiriting pointlessness in what I was doing.
A walk in the woods: rediscovering america on the appalachian tr...
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