unmeaning

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

From Time Magazine Archive

Howl is an astounding screed, an interminable sewer of a poem that sucks in all the feculence, malignity and unmeaning slime of modern life and spews them with tremendous momentum into the reader's mind.

From Time Magazine Archive

He wrote: "That unmeaning and abominable custom �swearing."

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

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