jejune
adjective
without interest or significance; dull; insipid.
jejuneness
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a word derived from
jejune.
Example Sentences
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If a reader new to the classics opened Thucydides, his first impression would probably be one of jejuneness, of baldness.
From The Legacy of Greece Essays By: Gilbert Murray, W. R. Inge, J. Burnet, Sir T. L. Heath, D'arcy W. Thompson, Charles Singer, R. W. Livingston, A. Toynbee, A. E. Zimmern, Percy Gardner, Sir Reginald Blomfield by R.W. Livingstone
They are guarded by the sacred rules of prescription, found in that full treasury of jurisprudence from which the jejuneness and penury of our municipal law has, by degrees, been enriched and strengthened.
From Selections from the Speeches and Writings of Edmund Burke by Edmund Burke
It was the epoch of the Melizah, and the Melizah was to supplement the jejuneness of Rabbinism and oppose the Hasidim with good results.
From The Renascence of Hebrew Literature (1743-1885) by Nahum Slouschz
They are guarded by the sacred rules of prescription, found in that full treasury of jurisprudence from which the jejuneness and penury of our municipal law has by degrees been enriched and strengthened.
From The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 05 (of 12) by Edmund Burke
And of all these things the insipidity and jejuneness of youth perforce know nothing.
From Atlantic Classics, Second Series by Jane Addams
