inconsequent

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To what inconsequent polysyllabic question of its readers did Slate Dot Com return a monosyllabic negative answer?

From Slate • Jun. 27, 2018

Here, you could argue, is the very justification of the novel itself – the education of our imaginations not by precept but through the inconsequent palpability of art, what Henry James called its "irresponsible plasticity".

From The Guardian • Oct. 8, 2010

Among the couths, even the inconsequent are competent.

From Time Magazine Archive

So enormous are the powdered peaks of the Alps, so wild and casual the winds that sweep between them that the actions of people must seem in comparison fragile and inconsequent, even unreal.

From Time Magazine Archive

A butterfly sped past us on the terrace, silly and inconsequent.

From "Rebecca" by Daphne du Maurier