unmeaning

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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

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

Having perused well the chronicle of the week, the Vigilant Patriot views with alarm: "The worthy, conscientious, entirely unmeaning and uninteresting son of plump old Edward VII."

From Time Magazine Archive

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

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