inanity

All this inanity takes place over the course of a handful of days, during which no one ever seems to change clothes.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 27, 2026

Setting aside the inanity of accusing a Jewish senator—who lost family members in the Holocaust—of antisemitism, Vietor volunteered an analysis that would’ve been unimaginable on previous iterations of the podcast.

From Slate ● Aug. 5, 2025

And he transmits the inanity to his characters, who speak, move and act as if they are all part of a stage play that would get laughed off Broadway before previews have even ended.

From Salon ● Apr. 19, 2025

What makes me grumpy these days is less the market than the hokum and inanity that would-be experts are using to calm investors right now.

From Seattle Times ● Jul. 16, 2022

Although neophyte writers may repeat a simple sentence structure to the point of inanity, most writers go to the opposite extreme and vary their syntax capriciously.

From "The Sense of Style" by Steven Pinker

The saga that has ensued is a window into the inanities that today govern the $19 billion industry known as college sports.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 24, 2025

Comedian Megan Stalter plays the office manager Isobel, and Lambert weaponizes Stalter’s preternatural ability to spew a steady stream of absurd workplace inanities.

From Seattle Times ● Jan. 31, 2024

Two decades ago, during Stewart’s heyday in the George W. Bush years, the comedian offered some catharsis from the day’s cruelties and inanities by doing what the mainstream news largely didn’t: cutting through the bull.

From Washington Post ● Feb. 24, 2022

The emperor surrounds himself with people who laugh at his jokes and applaud his inanities and answer “Huzzah!” when he says “Huzzah,” which he says a lot.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 14, 2020

They were exchanging inanities about the size and terrors of New York, but my body knew that the conversation was about something far more threatening.

From "Jacob Have I Loved" by Katherine Paterson