Example Sentences

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Here clearly the word 'love' is used unmeaningly.

From The Defendant by Chesterton, G. K. (Gilbert Keith)

Then it seemed to drift unmeaningly toward the rancher.

From The Forfeit by Cullum, Ridgwell

Malone, grinning most unmeaningly, inducted himself into the corresponding seat on the other side.

From Shirley by Brontë, Charlotte

Mr. Hoopdriver stirred on his pillow, opened his eyes, and, staring unmeaningly, yawned.

From The Wheels of Chance: a Bicycling Idyll by Wells, H. G. (Herbert George)

Oh, Pip! thy wretched laugh, thy idle but unresting eye; all thy strange mummeries not unmeaningly blended with the black tragedy of the melancholy ship, and mocked it!

From Moby Dick, or, the whale by Melville, Herman