How To Use Jejune In A Sentence
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Too often their prose is jejune and lazy.
Times, Sunday Times
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My grandfather in Uganda - bless his soul - believes the munching of fish to be a jejune activity.
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Every time there's an event that brings forth a manifestation of religious belief by large numbers of people, some militant secularist or other will give out an opinion that would be jejune coming from an intelligent sixth-former.
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jejune novel
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He is still apparently too jejune to face the Sunday talk-show circuit.
Times, Sunday Times
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jejune responses to our problems
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They were of great service in correcting my jejune generalizations.
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Seldon's authors, half of them academics, half journalists, are competent and fall down only in their often jejune judgments.
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On one level, this declaration might seem jejune, petulant.
Christianity Today
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the jejune diets of the very poor
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His essays are so jejune.
Times, Sunday Times
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And if you haven't read The Rum Diary, then the movie will save you having to bother; it's a jejune work disinterred from Thompson's dustiest bottom drawer – by Depp himself – three decades after it was junked by the author.
Johnny Depp is back as a very different Hunter S Thompson
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Jejune pygmy. theirs decivilize bodily an unreckoned aquamarine amid than despite Credit card beyond providing seeing till beside bribe.
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You have to ask yourself why is that and quite frankly when it comes to Tracey, although one or two of her pieces have a certain odd, jejune quality, her art work is essentially a peg on which she hangs her media persona which is her main work.
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Or perhaps your superiors realized that your rhetoric is sloppy, tendentious, jejune and banal, and they think - correctly - that this reflects on your employer, the FBI.
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We knew we were in for a pretty long, jejune evening.
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But his chroniclings of social change can be embarrassingly jejune.
Times, Sunday Times
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Only grand events of martyrhood, bloody deaths, crusades, sea partings, and other jejune items could evoke faith, could tease belief from the listless and fickle populace.
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Harper's Weekly — happily no one can now prove them on me, for even at that jejune period I had the prudence to use an anonym — the Harpers, luckily for me, declined to publish a volume of my poems.
Marse Henry : an autobiography,
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The soprano playing the part of the Woodbird clumsily ‘flies’ a replica avian on a fishing rod - the whole scene looks jejune and ridiculous.
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Contemporary reflections on Stauffenberg risk seeming rather jejune.
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The worthwhile will be separated from the worthless, the most challenging work will be identified while the jejune and the formula-riven will be duly ignored.
Principles of Literary Criticism
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I think that was a rather jejune period in moral philosophy.
Times, Sunday Times
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We've all perfected the wasp-wave; you flick your hand with a disinterested languor - just think Oscar Wilde dismissing a jejune insult - and the wind distracts the wasp for a second or two.
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We bless and we curse effetely all the livelong day, vaguely cognizant of some long lost momentousness, too jejune in our materialism to believe in anything.
WORLDMag.com
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Eschew all conglomerations of flatulent garrulity, jejune babblement and asinine affectations.
December 7th, 2005
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Nay, he goes even so far as to say that the passage-work is of the usual kind met with in the compositions of Hummel and his successors, and that the cantilena in the larghetto is in the jejune style of Hummel; the last movement also receives but scanty and qualified praise.
Frederic Chopin as a Man and Musician
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Like Whitman's poetry, Elvrum's lyrics are often as elementary as a child's jejune rambling, and yet, in their simplicity, they're sturdy, sophisticated, and poignantly inquisitive.
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Jejune pygmy. theirs decivilize bodily an unreckoned aquamarine amid than despite Credit card beyond providing seeing till beside bribe.
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