(a.) Without contents; empty; void of sense or intelligence; purposeless; pointless; characterless; useless.
(n.) That which is void or empty.
Example Sentences:
(1) He throws confessions about his love of guns or his lust for violence into restaurant conversations, but his inanely sophisticated companions carry on conversing about the varieties of sushi or the use of fur by leading designers.
(2) Indeed, the internet’s troll culture developed, at least in part, as a response to the inane “participation” offered by online marketers.
(3) The dialogue is perfect: the broker waxes inanely on ("A lovely space"), and the prospective buyers ooze gratitude at being granted a viewing.
(4) She reminds me of the time David was ridiculed for being photographed grinning inanely with a banana.
(5) This decade, on the other hand, has been relatively lax when it comes to pumping out neuron-destroying musical inanity.
(6) The internet has been awash with rumours, the inane chirping of the Twitter ranks rising slowly to a roar.
(7) Nobody, not even Geoff Boycott, cares about such inane guff.
(8) A sublime opener was followed by the inane offence that triggered Russia's comeback for an ominous victory.
(9) Jean-Paul Belmondo disrupts a conventional household in À Double Tour (Web of Passion, 1959) by playing inane practical jokes and completely disregarding table manners.
(10) This may be the only way to early counteract medically inane causal relationship being presented by the relative's advocate.
(11) One moment Mor was drawing a foul from Pavel Kaderabek and Selcuk Inan was hitting the wall from the free-kick, the next Kaderabek was in on Babacan’s goal and firing in a shot that was deflected wide for a corner.
(12) In the minds of the kind of people who bring Talking Heads CDs to parties, their apparent popularity doubtless brings to mind Nietzschean notions of the inanity of the herd and the eternal attraction of bad art.
(13) TURKEY Fatih Terim, now in his third spell as Turkey manager, can call on an extraordinarily technically gifted midfield, with the holding midfielder Selcuk Inan allowing Barcelona’s Arda Turan and the Leverkusen free-kick specialist Hakan Calhanoglu to attack.
(14) "Inane stuff about what twits are having for breakfast.
(15) Before you write off digital stickers as inane, they are a decent moneyspinner for LINE: of the $58m the company made in sales in the first quarter of 2013, half came from selling games and 30%, or roughly $17m, from sales of its 8,000 different stickers.
(16) There were also bad and inane films - playing Chinese in Dragon Seed (1944); helpless in Without Love (1945) and The Sea Of Grass (1947), both with Tracy; trying to be Clara Schumann in Song Of Love (1947); and in Vincente Minnelli's neurotic Undercurrent (1946).
(17) As holidays are taken and the inane rituals of party conferences loom, too many politicians and commentators seem to have fallen for a comfy bit of groupthink: that what with the odd poor poll showing and this sudden outbreak of silence, the menace has receded and we have passed “peak Ukip”.
(18) Yes, where I live we would all appreciate a better commute – which, since I have this opportunity to address you on the subject, would include the summary dismissal of the people who inflict those inane recorded announcements about holding on to our luggage, standing behind the yellow line, using the lifts when carrying heavy items, avoiding slipping over when it has been frosty overnight, and reading the safety instructions before travelling.
(19) 'An inane jumble': Trump foreign policy splits GOP on issue party once agreed on Read more Steps away from the chaos, Democrats at the US Capitol used the opportunity to portray Republicans as belonging to the “Party of Trump”.
(20) ■ "Wittering inanity", "Fatuous", "Pass the jubilee sickbag".
Jejune
Definition:
(a.) Lacking matter; empty; void of substance.
(a.) Void of interest; barren; meager; dry; as, a jejune narrative.
Example Sentences:
(1) The authors report 4 new cases of heterotopic pancreas in children with prepyloric, jejunal, Meckel's diverticulum and mesenteric localization.
(2) Eight vagotomy-gastrectomy dogs were studied; 4 had a jejunal fistula, and 4 other dogs without a fistula served as controls.
(3) A state of net secretory fluid flux was induced in isolated jejunal loops in weanling pigs by adding theophylline or cholera toxin to the lumen of the isolated loops.
(4) The mean birth weight and gestational age in jejunal atresia were significantly lower than in ileal atresia.
(5) The effect of insulin on jejunal myoelectric activity was studied in conscious dogs and sheep by injection of insulin and stimulation of insulin release.
(6) The in vitro absorption by rat jejunal and ileal gut sacs of soluble antigen-antibody complexes and of antigen alone was compared.
(7) Two normal variants that could be confused with abnormalities were noted: (a) the featureless appearance of the duodenal bulb may be mistaken for extravasation, and (b) contrastmaterial filling of the proximal jejunal loop at an end-to-end anastomosis with retained invaginated pancreas may be mistaken for intussusception.
(8) Reconstruction of the intrahepatic biliary tree was carried out in all patients using intrahepatic cholangiojejunostomies between common segmental hepatic stomata and a Roux-en-Y jejunal loop.
(9) In purified jejunal brush-border membranes both alkaline phosphatase and sucrase activities are increased at 4 or 7 weeks but especially at 13 weeks of hypertension.
(10) It is concluded that prednisolone depresses cell proliferative rates in rat jejunal mucosa.
(11) Four patients with coeliac disease, who had shown complete mucosal recovery after prolonged treatment with a strict gluten-free diet, volunteered to consume oats in addition to their gluten-free diet for a period of one month and were studied by jejunal biopsy before and after the experimental period.
(12) From a total of 734 children with a blunt abdominal trauma admitted to the hospital in the past 15 years, 21 patients (3%) sustained an isolated injury of the bowel (8 duodenal, 9 jejunal and 4 colon ruptures).
(13) After each meal, measurements were made of the jejunal motility index, the time of reappearance of interdigestive burst activity, and overall motility patterns.
(14) Intrinsic factor-mediated uptake of cobalamin could not be demonstrated using ileal crypt or jejunal villous or crypt cells.
(15) However, for liver, duodenal, and jejunal tissue, DNA concentrations in ADLIB lambs were lower (P less than .05) than in MAINT lambs.
(16) It was therefore decided to attempt re-instillation of jejunal juices directly to the ileum using two 33 CH endotracheal tubes connected with soft chest drain tubing.
(17) The experiments were carried out in dogs and cervical oesophagus replacement was performed using a jejunal loop.
(18) Thus, although the delay in small bowel transit observed during ileal infusion of lipid can be explained by reductions in the rate and the degree of propagation of jejunal contractions, the mechanism varies according to the type of meal.
(19) Polar metabolites were also found in the portal plasma and jejunal wall 20 min after the feeding of [14C]chenodeoxycholate to bile fistula rats.
(20) Jejunal biopsies were taken from two piglets before the experimental infection, from two piglets 12 h after the experimental infection and from five piglets at the end of the experiment, 46 h after infection.