unmeaning
Americanadjective
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not meaning anything; devoid of intelligence, sense, or significance, as words or actions; pointless; empty.
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expressionless, vacant, or unintelligent, as the face; insipid.
adjective
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having no meaning
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showing no intelligence; vacant
an unmeaning face
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Noah Webster, in his 1828 American Dictionary, defined slang as "low, vulgar, unmeaning."
From Time Magazine Archive
He wrote: "That unmeaning and abominable custom �swearing."
From Time Magazine Archive
He still hears the voice of the demagogue, but it comes as a mere unmeaning murmur.
From Time Magazine Archive
Such as that Mr. Auslander is "a lyric, not to say a complaining, poet" is to me an entirely uncalled-for, not to say an utterly unmeaning line.
From Time Magazine Archive
The old woman, wrinkled, dirty, clothed in an ill-sewn sack of sealskin, pointed at the little silken dress and at herself, and smiled: a sweet, unmeaning smile, like a baby’s.
From "A Wizard of Earthsea" by Ursula K. Le Guin
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