unmeaning

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He sings in a doubtful falsetto and his movements are unmeaning, and frequently absurd.

From Time Magazine Archive

Having perused well the chronicle of the week, the Vigilant Patriot views with alarm: "The worthy, conscientious, entirely unmeaning and uninteresting son of plump old Edward VII."

From Time Magazine Archive

Noah Webster, in his 1828 American Dictionary, defined slang as "low, vulgar, unmeaning."

From Time Magazine Archive

Such as that Mr. Auslander is "a lyric, not to say a complaining, poet" is to me an entirely uncalled-for, not to say an utterly unmeaning line.

From Time Magazine Archive

The old woman, wrinkled, dirty, clothed in an ill-sewn sack of sealskin, pointed at the little silken dress and at herself, and smiled: a sweet, unmeaning smile, like a baby’s.

From "A Wizard of Earthsea" by Ursula K. Le Guin