insignificancy

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.

The insignificancy of my manners to the rest of the world makes the laughers call me a quidnunc, a phrase I shall never inquire what they mean by it.

From The Tatler, Volume 1, 1899 by Aitken, George A.

It is calculated to keep me forever fixed in that state of useless and disgraceful insignificancy, which has been my lot for some years past.

From Life and Public Services of John Quincy Adams Sixth President of the Unied States by Seward, William Henry

On arriving at the spot, it was distressing to observe the insignificancy of the place, with regard to such a melancholy event.

From Confessions of an Etonian by I. E. M.

The towers and western front were in a cold, gray tint: the houses, of inferior dimensions, were shrunk to insignificancy.

From A Bibliographical, Antiquarian and Picturesque Tour in France and Germany, Volume Three by Dibdin, Thomas Frognall

Now, then, my very dear colleagues, who as shining luminaries guide the inferior bodies, it becomes you to examine and to use this work candidly, without regarding the meanness and insignificancy of the workman.

From Elements of Gaelic Grammar by Stewart, Alexander