nonsensical
Example Sentences
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The tone of the language grew harsh; the reported revelations from deceased relatives called “ludicrous,” “trifling and nonsensical,” “a farce.”
From Literature
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The film exhibits no sense of how to stage a surprise, settling instead for hackish tricks like having a character nonsensically appear in, say, the middle of a deserted street as though arriving via drone.
The majority of the investment in building and deploying Homes.com External link is done, so it’s sort of nonsensical to not play it out.
From Barron's
“When the IRS wrote the rules back in 1988, they obviously could not have anticipated the nonsensical situation with cryptocurrency, a publicly traded asset that nonetheless is not necessarily a ‘security.’
In this Apple TV series, O’Hara nails the fickle, chaotic and nonsensical churn of the industry through her intense character, who is based on the former Sony Picture Entertainment head, Amy Pascal.
From Los Angeles Times
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