inanities
- plural of inanity.
Example Sentences
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The saga that has ensued is a window into the inanities that today govern the $19 billion industry known as college sports.
From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 24, 2025
Comedian Megan Stalter plays the office manager Isobel, and Lambert weaponizes Stalter’s preternatural ability to spew a steady stream of absurd workplace inanities.
From Seattle Times • Jan. 31, 2024
Old virtues turn into self-evident vices or, worse, convictions that get remembered as inanities.
From Washington Post • Jan. 21, 2022
The emperor surrounds himself with people who laugh at his jokes and applaud his inanities and answer “Huzzah!” when he says “Huzzah,” which he says a lot.
From Los Angeles Times • May 14, 2020
But she was miserably nervous too, incapable of stepping around the inanities.
From "Atonement" by Ian McEwan
