Unmeaning

_Unmeaning etiquette of Chinese officials toward foreigners_.

Across China on Foot Edwin John Dingle 1926

Unmeaning sounds, meant, it is supposed, to express the confusion at the building of Babel.

Inferno [Hell]. Canto XXXI 1909

Unmeaning and muddle-headed tyranny in small things, that is the thing which, if extended over many years, is harder to bear and hope through than the massacres of September.

Robert Browning 1905

-- 'Unmeaning do you call him?' replied my friend in black; 'this is one of the most important characters of the whole play; nothing pleases the people more than seeing a straw balanced: there is a great deal of meaning in a straw: there is something suited to every apprehension in the sight; and a fellow possessed of talents like these is sure of making his fortune.'

Goldsmith English Men of Letters Series William Black 1869

Unmeaning and grotesque as it appears at first sight, a little attention enables us to decipher and interpret it.

Ancient Law Its Connection to the History of Early Society Henry Sumner Maine 1855

Between the true and the false there is a third possibility, the Unmeaning: and this alternative is fatal to

A System Of Logic, Ratiocinative And Inductive John Stuart Mill 1839

Unmeaning, or in any case inconsistent, as this talk about 'correctness' may be, we cannot allow Pope so to escape from his own hyperbolical absurdities.

Theological Essays and Other Papers — Volume 2 Thomas De Quincey 1822

Unmeaning meanings were affixed to them, to catch the attention of the fuperftitious.

A review of ecclesiastical establishments in Europe : containing their history ... : and an essay tending to shew both the political and moral necessity of abolishing exclusive establishments, with answers to some principal objections Whatman, James, 1741-1798 1796

And here — Ihnfc eye*, fo forni'd - o klll. l And now. with ready tongue, he llHup Unmeaning, faft, rtHnicf .. thing!

A Complete Edition of the Poets of Great Britain.. 1794

This is the common cant j the flale, grofs, idlcf Unmeaning jargon of all thofe who, conTcious Of their own lilttenefs of foul, avoid With timid eye the face of modeft virtue.

Tragedies: By Hugh Downman, M.D. Hugh Downman 1792