Thesaurus / jejune
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This is always repeated in one unvarying phase of the most jejune and meagre character.
THE CATACOMBS OF ROMEWILLIAM HENRY WITHROWBut these might grow jejune, nor is it safe to trust the tender mercies of a butcher.
THE ATLANTIC MONTHLY, VOLUME 16, NO. 97, NOVEMBER, 1865VARIOUSThe flesh is very pasty, and the general effect of the picture jejune in the extreme.
BLACKWOOD'S EDINBURGH MAGAZINE, VOLUME 68, NO. 417, JULY, 1850VARIOUSWe pass in the world for sects and schools, for erudition and piety, and we are all the time jejune babes.
ESSAYS, FIRST SERIESRALPH WALDO EMERSONThe volume of 1500 had been jejune, written when he knew nothing of Greek; 800 adages put together with scanty elucidations.
ENCYCLOPAEDIA BRITANNICA, 11TH EDITION, VOLUME 9, SLICE 7VARIOUSI do protest against those jejune satirists who hold them up to ridicule, forsooth!
LIPPINCOTT'S MAGAZINE, VOL. 20, NO. 33, NOVEMBER 1877VARIOUSThis it is that makes the reading of the sixteenth century polemics so insufferably jejune and dreary.
GERMAN SOCIETY AT THE CLOSE OF THE MIDDLE AGESERNEST BELFORT BAXFor in stories, as in other games, play without luck is fatiguing and jejune, luck without play childish.
THE FLOURISHING OF ROMANCE AND THE RISE OF ALLEGORYGEORGE SAINTSBURYHis sayings, which had been extolled as the very epitome of wisdom, were now voted jejune and commonplace.
THE SAYINGS OF CONFUCIUSCONFUCIUSThe statement in Mr. Yang's jejune essay that the Chinese give pure silver in exchange for foreign dollars containing 10 per cent.
INTIMATE CHINAMRS. ARCHIBALD LITTLEWORDS RELATED TO JEJUNE
- aboveboard
- artless
- callow
- candid
- confiding
- countrified
- credulous
- forthright
- frank
- fresh
- green
- guileless
- gullible
- harmless
- ignorant
- impulsive
- ingenuous
- innocent
- innocuous
- instinctive
- jejune
- lamb
- like a babe in the woods
- natural
- open
- original
- patsy
- plain
- simple
- simple-minded
- sincere
- spontaneous
- square
- sucker
- unaffected
- unjaded
- unpretentious
- unschooled
- unsophisticated
- unsuspecting
- unsuspicious
- untaught
- unworldly
- virgin
- wide-eyed
- banal
- bromidic
- clichéd
- common
- cornball
- corny
- drained
- dull
- familiar tune
- flat
- hackneyed
- hokey
- jejune
- mildewed
- moth-eaten
- musty
- old hat
- ordinary
- platitudinal
- platitudinous
- prosaic
- ready-made
- run-of-the-mill
- shopworn
- stale
- stock
- threadbare
- timeworn
- uninspired
- unoriginal
- used-up
- vapid
- warmed-over
- well-worn
- worn-out
- banal
- bathetic
- bromidic
- cliched
- clichéd
- common
- commonplace
- cornball
- corny
- drained
- dull
- exhausted
- familiar tune
- flat
- hackneyed
- hokey
- jejune
- mildewed
- moth-eaten
- musty
- old hat
- ordinary
- overused
- overworked
- pedestrian
- platitudinous
- prosaic
- ready-made
- routine
- run-of-the-mill
- set
- shopworn
- stale
- stereotyped
- stereotypic
- stereotypical
- stock
- threadbare
- timeworn
- tired
- uninspired
- unoriginal
- used-up
- vapid
- warmed-over
- well-worn
- worn
- worn-out
- banal
- bathetic
- bromidic
- clichéd
- common
- commonplace
- cornball
- corny
- drained
- dull
- exhausted
- familiar tune
- flat
- hackneyed
- hokey
- jejune
- mildewed
- moth-eaten
- musty
- old hat
- ordinary
- overused
- overworked
- pedestrian
- platitudinal
- prosaic
- ready-made
- routine
- run-of-the-mill
- set
- shopworn
- stale
- stereotyped
- stereotypic
- stereotypical
- stock
- threadbare
- timeworn
- tired
- uninspired
- unoriginal
- used-up
- vapid
- warmed-over
- well-worn
- worn
- worn-out
- affected
- affectionate
- bathetic
- corny
- demonstrative
- dewy-eyed
- dreamy
- effusive
- gushing
- gushy
- idealistic
- impressionable
- inane
- insipid
- jejune
- languishing
- lovey-dovey
- loving
- maudlin
- mawkish
- moonstruck
- mushy
- nostalgic
- overacted
- overemotional
- passionate
- pathetic
- romantic
- rosewater
- saccharine
- sappy
- silly
- simpering
- sloppy
- slushy
- soapy
- sobby
- soft
- softhearted
- soppy
- sugary
- sweet
- syrupy
- tear-jerking
- tearful
- tender
- touching
- vapid
- visionary
- weepy
- affected
- affectionate
- corny
- demonstrative
- dewy-eyed
- dreamy
- effusive
- gushing
- gushy
- histrionic
- histrionical
- idealistic
- impressionable
- inane
- insipid
- jejune
- languishing
- lovey-dovey
- loving
- maudlin
- moonstruck
- mushy
- nostalgic
- overacted
- overemotional
- passionate
- pathetic
- rosewater
- saccharine
- sappy
- schmaltzy
- silly
- simpering
- sloppy
- slushy
- soapy
- soft
- softhearted
- sugary
- sweet
- syrupy
- tear-jerking
- tearful
- tender
- touching
- vapid
- visionary
- weepy
- affected
- affectionate
- bathetic
- corny
- demonstrative
- dewy-eyed
- dreamy
- effusive
- gushing
- gushy
- idealistic
- impressionable
- inane
- insipid
- jejune
- languishing
- lovey-dovey
- loving
- maudlin
- mawkish
- moonstruck
- mushy
- nostalgic
- overacted
- overemotional
- passionate
- pathetic
- romantic
- rosewater
- saccharine
- sappy
- schmaltzy
- silly
- simpering
- sloppy
- soapy
- sobby
- soft
- softhearted
- soppy
- sugary
- sweet
- syrupy
- tear-jerking
- tearful
- tender
- touching
- vapid
- visionary
- weepy
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