inanity

Example Sentences

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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

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

Realizing that my story is but one entry on 2021's extensive list of celebrity inanity restored my fortitude.

From Salon • Dec. 31, 2021

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