inconsequently love

Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • In an inconsequent manner; irrelevantly.

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  • adverb In an inconsequential way, or a way that suggests a lack of consequence

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  • adverb lacking consequence

Etymologies

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inconsequent +β€Ž -ly

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Examples

  • "You should 'a' ben up at Riley's barn last night," Jim announced inconsequently.

    Chapter 5 2010

  • Because they are so similar, I decided that if I was going to put effort and time into biscotti than I may as well put it into my great grandmother's mandel bread; which is, inconsequently, the very best mandel on this planet.

    TWD:Lenox Almond Biscotti Melissa 2008

  • Because they are so similar, I decided that if I was going to put effort and time into biscotti than I may as well put it into my great grandmother's mandel bread; which is, inconsequently, the very best mandel on this planet.

    Archive 2008-10-01 Melissa 2008

  • I hope you are thinking John McCain, who holds upwards of 90% of the same views as President Bush and inconsequently bottles beer for Anheuser-Busch.

    History Repeating 2008

  • My thoughts turned, inconsequently, out of their channel of bitterness, to fresh, desperate questionings.

    The House on the Borderland 2007

  • Not inconsequently, there are some pretty bright lines, of which abortion is one, like it or not.

    Must we keep calling Nancy Pelosi a grandmother? Ann Althouse 2006

  • And Edward Rosier looked all round, inconsequently, with his single glass.

    The Portrait of a Lady 2003

  • Isabel, inconsequently enough, was now sorry to hear it.

    The Portrait of a Lady 2003

  • Apparently the Princess answered his sage phrases rather absent-mindedly and inconsequently, although endeavouring to show that she was listening to him with attention, because sometimes he looked at her in astonishment, trying to divine the cause of the inward agitation which was expressed at times in her restless glance ...

    A Hero of Our Time 2003

  • Then he somewhat inconsequently added: β€œHe lives a very lonely life; he has had to do everything for himself.”

    The Complete Father Brown 2003

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