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 restaurant experience was the visitors’ introduction to the officious inanities of the Soviet Union, a place of facades and concealment.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 25, 2026

When her younger self goes on a talk show, her inanities get the kind of rapturous applause that means her fans don’t care what she says.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 19, 2024

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

These harmless inanities, far preferable to silence, allowed Robbie to retreat behind a mask of amused attention.

From "Atonement" by Ian McEwan