insubstantial
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But CBS is already full of people who think they know what they’re doing, who believe they represent hallowed tradition, the so-called Tiffany network, against which the Free Press must seem a tad insubstantial.
From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 7, 2025
Bold yet insubstantial, “Love Hurts” insecurely asks the score to do too much work, pounding away at a funky spy track before unconvincingly pivoting to something sincere.
From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 6, 2025
The UN's cultural agency said that despite "significant growth in production", the business of film-making across the continent was hindered by issues such as piracy, insubstantial training opportunities and a lack of official film institutions.
From BBC • Oct. 22, 2024
The ads that failed were ultimately insubstantial, or otherwise objectionable.
From Slate • Feb. 12, 2024
Olanna had taken Baby to visit Mrs. Muokelu, and while he waited for them to come back Ugwu weeded the garden and worried that his story was insubstantial.
From "Half of a Yellow Sun" by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Vocabulary lists containing insubstantial
The Grapes of Wrath
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The Graveyard Book
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The Tempest
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