unmeaning

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He recapitulates his life's journey in a series of dreams and daydreams that reveal to him the meaning and unmeaning of his existence.

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

Noah Webster, in his 1828 American Dictionary, defined slang as "low, vulgar, unmeaning."

From Time Magazine Archive

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

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