Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- In an inconsequential manner; without regular sequence or deduction.
Wiktionary
- adv. The adverb form of inconsequential: to do something in a manner of little consequence.
WordNet 3.0
- adv. lacking consequence
Etymologies
- inconsequential + -ly (Wiktionary)
Examples
“By demanding big dollars and using their most valuable content (and not inconsequentially, the content least available on the internet) to leverage the fees they want, the networks are being smart.”
The Huffington Post: David Nassar: What Fox vs. Cablevision Was Really About
“Dave Todd, from Sydney not inconsequentially, says: Given the hefty sentences handed down for bowling a few no balls and my ignorance of the law, I was just wondering what sort of sentence a person might get in England for impersonating a batsman?”
The Guardian: Pakistan v England - day three live! | Rob Bagchi and Rob Smyth
“This was all too apparent in Sokol's whiny performance on CNBC this morning where he mused inconsequentially about, "The only thing you can do is just say if you invest your own money, you don't even mention it to anyone at Berkshire.”
“How could he treat our marriage so inconsequentially for our children?”
The Huffington Post: Sally Fay: A Shallow Ending To A Deep Commitment
“So, you've got a cool SF environment to zip around in, more human and alien cultures than you can shake a stick at, and a ship that not only fuses human and alien engineering in an ingenious and self-consistent way, but happens to be nigh-on invulnerable, and - not inconsequentially - ends up looking pretty cool as well.”
“Though it hurt him, gazing into the frank, earnest face of his fellow countryman, he replied inconsequentially on the state of the trail.”
“But women were curious creatures, he could not help moralizing, and were prone to lose their hearts most strangely and inconsequentially.”
“And, not inconsequentially, the moral stain of having promoted a drug as safe for kids that was not, in the prosecutor's own words, "approved to treat children.”
The Huffington Post: John Horton: When Drug Companies Choose Profits Over People
“Life's too short to be so inconsequentially angry.”
Giving evidence to the Chilcot inquiry, Tony Blair said: “I...
“Once upon a time, I was writing about pop culture but doing so inconsequentially.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘inconsequentially’.
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Seven-syllable English Words
A list of English words containing seven syllables, beginning, somewhat ironically, with inapplicability, since a fair number of these words one would never use.
I'm tagging all words ...inapplicability, unsatisfactorily, heterogeneity, disintermediation, antiglobalization, telecommunication, interdisciplinary, meteorological, socioeconomic, intelligibility, autobiographical, industrialization and 423 more...
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EN - longest (>15 char) words
compartmentalisation, compartmentalization, counterrevolution..., counterrevolutionary, electroencephalogram, electroencephalog..., electroencephalog..., electroencephalog..., electroencephalog..., electroencephalog..., institutionalisation, institutionalization and 634 more...
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Adverbia
A long list of adverbs, beginning with full-drive. Someone had to list them. This list in continued in the list More Adverbia.
Read some sniping and some informative commentary about a...full-drive, portentously, unlawfully, legally, heterogeneously, consumingly, clancularly, inconsolably, prepositionally, retrogressively, symptomatically, decrepitly and 2460 more...
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