unmeaning
adjective
not meaning anything; devoid of intelligence, sense, or significance, as words or actions; pointless; empty.
unmeaningly
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a word derived from
unmeaning.
Example Sentences
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"Yes; she wanted a lot of pressing, I dare say," said Jane, glancing at Gertrude, who was smiling unmeaningly.
From An Unsocial Socialist by Bernard Shaw
Quite unmeaningly he had betrayed a secret which might prove of tremendous import in the desperate game Red Bill seemed bent on playing.
From The Girl Aviators on Golden Wings by Margaret Burnham
Miss Arthur gazed across at her brother, and said, loftily, and somewhat unmeaningly: "It is what I have chosen to do, John."
From Madeline Payne, the Detective's Daughter by Lawrence L. Lynch
We might soon form a dancer, if the art consisted only in his being taught 97 M to shake his legs in cadence, to ballance his body, or to move his arms unmeaningly.
From A Treatise on the Art of Dancing by Giovanni-Andrea Gallini
An ensuing town on the same site may be unmeaningly named as a permanency, but the inspirations that afford transient nomenclature are usually descriptive.
From Eleven Possible Cases by Franklin Fyles
