inconsequent

Example Sentences

Examples are provided to illustrate real-world usage of words in context. Any opinions expressed do not reflect the views of Dictionary.com.

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

With ordinary people�the shopkeepers, former spies, pharmacists, German soldiers, lawyers, biologists, hairdressers�they steadily expose those jagged, apparently inconsequent motivations that can lead a man either way in a private crisis.

From Time Magazine Archive

Said Francis Bacon: "Men rest not in false apprehensions without absurd and inconsequent deductions."

From Time Magazine Archive

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

From "Rebecca" by Daphne du Maurier