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Thread #109464   Message #2289920
Posted By: Amos
16-Mar-08 - 03:02 PM
Thread Name: BS: Prez surrogates & the race/gender war
Subject: RE: BS: Prez surrogates & the race/gender war
insubstantial: lacking in nutritive value; "the jejune diets of the very poor"

adolescent: displaying or suggesting a lack of maturity; "adolescent insecurity"; "jejune responses to our problems"; "their behavior was juvenile"; "puerile jokes"

insipid: lacking interest or significance; "an insipid personality"; "jejune novel"
wordnet.princeton.edu/perl/webwn

Other words of similar value in describing all this push-button, hyper-associative, Pavlovian political maunder on Rig's part:

aimless, banal, barren, cheap, dead, deadpan, devoid, dishonest, dumb, expressionless, fatuous, flat, frivolous, futile, hollow, idle, ignorant, inane, ineffective, ineffectual, inexpressive, insincere, insipid,, meaningless, nugatory, otiose, paltry, petty, purposeless, senseless, silly, trivial, unintelligent, unreal, unsatisfactory, unsubstantial, vacuous, vain, valueless, vapid, worthless. Also absurd, asinine, birdbrained, daft, ditzy, driveling, empty, fatuous, flat, foolish, frivolous, futile, harebrained*, idiotic, illogical, imbecilic, innocuous, insipid, jejune, jerky, lamebrained, laughable, meaningless, mindless, nerdy, pointless, puerile, ridiculous, sappy*, senseless, silly, trifling, unintelligent, vacant, vacuous, vain, vapid, weak, wishy-washy*, and worthless.

Any questions? (My apologies to Rig for my jejune diatribe).


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