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inanely

/ih-neyn/US // ɪˈneɪn //UK // (ɪˈneɪn) //

无聊地,毫无意义地,愚蠢地,毫无意义的

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Definitions

adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : lacking sense, significance, or ideas; silly: inane questions.
    • : empty; void.
n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : something that is empty or void, especially the void of infinite space.

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Examples

  • Whenever I get one of those inane email notices about incremental changes in my credit rating, which arrive nearly daily, I tense up.

  • The show not only provided a welcome reprieve from a tough day in the laboratory, but also fueled fun debates among us students as to whether the inane scenarios were plausible.

  • All the evening we sat, almost in silence, inanely smirking at each other and listening to the rain.

  • I was speaking with your father last night, he said, at last, somewhat inanely.

  • Each of them was Tommy Atkins—the inanely smirking hero of the picture-paper and the funny paragraph.

  • The quotation, lilted inanely as a nursery rime, pierced her heart like a flight of silver arrows.

  • His eye fell on the terra-cotta Parisienne dancing inanely on her pedestal, and he moaned like one in pain.