inanity

All this inanity takes place over the course of a handful of days, during which no one ever seems to change clothes.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 27, 2026

Setting aside the inanity of accusing a Jewish senator—who lost family members in the Holocaust—of antisemitism, Vietor volunteered an analysis that would’ve been unimaginable on previous iterations of the podcast.

From Slate ● Aug. 5, 2025

But because this is “Housewives,” a healthy amount of humor and inanity occurred when the trio landed in Georgia.

From Salon ● Mar. 5, 2025

What makes me grumpy these days is less the market than the hokum and inanity that would-be experts are using to calm investors right now.

From Seattle Times ● Jul. 16, 2022

Although neophyte writers may repeat a simple sentence structure to the point of inanity, most writers go to the opposite extreme and vary their syntax capriciously.

From "The Sense of Style" by Steven Pinker

The saga that has ensued is a window into the inanities that today govern the $19 billion industry known as college sports.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 24, 2025

Comedian Megan Stalter plays the office manager Isobel, and Lambert weaponizes Stalter’s preternatural ability to spew a steady stream of absurd workplace inanities.

From Seattle Times ● Jan. 31, 2024

He rode herd on the musicological and critical communities, sending unsolicited — indeed, dreaded — postcards to colleagues with capsule critiques, noting errors or inanities, often scathingly.

From New York Times ● Jul. 3, 2022

But they’ll be your inanities, which in a way are like your children — they’re no less obnoxious than everyone else’s, but you love them more anyway.

From Washington Post ● Mar. 10, 2022

They were exchanging inanities about the size and terrors of New York, but my body knew that the conversation was about something far more threatening.

From "Jacob Have I Loved" by Katherine Paterson