unimportant
Britishadjective
Example Sentences
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Unimportant, yet rising to the dignity of a fate that “must be studied”—that is the shadowy destiny of Solstad’s men, the mystery that keeps the reader engrossed, even when the books risk tedium.
From The New Yorker • Oct. 15, 2018
Unimportant page-filling pap, rightly excised in favour of more snaps of Her Majesty nearly smiling?
From The Guardian • Jun. 9, 2012
Mr. Savu’s paintings — “An Unimportant Day,” “Three Friends” and “The Shepherd” — feature snapshotlike views of exactly what the title of the first canvas suggests: banality, the mundane and the quotidian.
From New York Times • Jan. 15, 2011
Yet if there are Important and Unimportant artists in the U. S., Kuniyoshi ranks easily among the first ten Importants.
From Time Magazine Archive
Unimportant kids' coats were put at either end of the lake as goalmouths to reach through and to defend.
From "Black Swan Green" by David Mitchell
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