insignificance
Example Sentences
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Voted most likely to succeed in junior high school, he considered the insignificance: “All it meant was that a lot of people had heard of you. Who wants to be heard of anyway?”
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 12, 2024
Lola is a relative free spirit with an open heart but a sense of limits; Aimée’s performance emphasizes the essential innocence, or maybe insignificance, of her flirtations.
From New York Times ● Jun. 18, 2024
On Saturday evening in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, heavyweight boxing’s bureaucracy and politics will fizzle into insignificance.
From BBC ● May 16, 2024
A grain of sand is generally used for expressing tininess, or insignificance.
From Salon ● Nov. 30, 2023
They were still looking at him with consternation and unbelief when the minister rose and introduced him in rich, rolling tones whose very unction served to increase the visitor's insignificance.
From "The Sound and the Fury" by William Faulkner
