jejune
adjective
without interest or significance; dull; insipid.
jejuneness
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a word derived from
jejune.
Example Sentences
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He was far more of a scientific musician than Gluck, and his scores have nothing of his master's jejuneness.
From The Opera A Sketch of the Development of Opera. With full Descriptions of all Works in the Modern Repertory. by J. A. Fuller-Maitland
These attacks ended by opening his eyes to the comparative jejuneness of his own outlook on life.
From Jena or Sedan? by Franz Beyerlein
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
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
