unmeaning

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Such as that Mr. Auslander is "a lyric, not to say a complaining, poet" is to me an entirely uncalled-for, not to say an utterly unmeaning line.

From Time Magazine Archive

Sir: Admiral Anderson has a worthy predecessor in his war on profanity, one who was equally adamant about "that unmeaning and abominable custom, swearing."

From Time Magazine Archive

He sings in a doubtful falsetto and his movements are unmeaning, and frequently absurd.

From Time Magazine Archive

The kitchen, the social order, the whole vast conspiracy of unmeaning that, as Playwright Wesker sees it, prisons and demeans mankind, is interrupted, annulled.

From Time Magazine Archive

The old woman, wrinkled, dirty, clothed in an ill-sewn sack of sealskin, pointed at the little silken dress and at herself, and smiled: a sweet, unmeaning smile, like a baby’s.

From "A Wizard of Earthsea" by Ursula K. Le Guin