unmeaning

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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 wrote: "That unmeaning and abominable custom �swearing."

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

Howl is an astounding screed, an interminable sewer of a poem that sucks in all the feculence, malignity and unmeaning slime of modern life and spews them with tremendous momentum into the reader's mind.

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