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Adverb for boring or severely lacking in interest
“The jejune speeches faded into oblivion even as they were being delivered.”
Adverb for simplistic, devoid of substance
“Perhaps your superiors realized that your rhetoric is sloppy, tendentious, jejune and banal.”
Adverb for immature, or lacking in life experience
“Friar Lawrence upbraids Romeo for his youthful fickleness, and we realize he is, in many ways, a jejune youth.”
Adverb for annoyingly or embarrassingly immature in nature or behavior
“As traditionalist critics struggled with this apparently jejune outburst, it was as though Mordred had taken over the court of Hollywood.”
Adverb for having an innocent or credulous nature
“We, in this century, may well be as gullible and as conceptually jejune as any generation before us.”
Adverb for having or arousing feelings of tenderness, sadness, or nostalgia, typically in an exaggerated and self-indulgent way
(followed by in) Adverb for lacking or having a shortage in
Adverb for of little importance
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