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How to use jejune in a sentence

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Seldon's authors, half of them academics, half journalists, are competent and fall down only in their often jejune judgments.
Contemporary reflections on Stauffenberg risk seeming rather jejune.
What lies beneath, allegedly, is a party at once anachronistic, parochial, extremist, jejune and heartless.
My money is on Crusading Carly to oust the jejune and pointless Barbara Boxer.
And for all Mr Cameron's own calm plausibility, in the new atmosphere of austerity his front-bench team has come to seem vulnerably jejune.
Gradus had long been a member of all sorts of jejune leftist organizations.
Schuette asks whether the 14th amendment's equal-protection clause bars states from ending racially conscious admissions policies. The oral argument last week made the issues in Fisher look jejune by comparison.
The present annual report is not intended to present a jejune account of the activities undertaken by the organs of the Tribunal over the past 12 months.
Well, at least he came to see how jejune his earlier view was.
The debates are necessary and, even at their most jejune, not totally without worth.
Examples from Classical Literature
The stuff was undeniably poor, though it was not so jejune as it seemed to Kent.
The only thing to be regretted in the volume is the arid and jejune character of the style.
But it observed a very high standard of classical English, a little intolerant of neologism, but not stiff nor jejune.
How jejune and inconsiderable it seems in comparison with your great system!
After some jejune remarks upon this question he drops into theology and winds up with a little sermon.
The first verse is by far the best, and every subsequent verse seems to grow more loose and jejune as the composition proceeds.
Hence it is as common a thing to hear our orators condemned for being too jejune and feeble as too excessive and redundant.
We pass in the world for sects and schools, for erudition and piety, and we are all the time jejune babes.
All the native annalists are jejune to an exasperating degree.
What may have been hilarious stories in a nighttime telling around a fire come across as jejune when conveyed by the cold light of print.
But the governor's supporters claim that beneath Engler's jejune exterior is one of the shrewdest political minds in the United States.
Reviewing anthologies can be almost as fun as compiling them, and in some cases almost as jejune or as hazardous as well.
In some ways, these hopes and capacities are shown to be jejune and silly.
When we did try, the result was usually as jejune as the original.
I suggest that such attempts amplify the reasons why such jejune frameworks applied to the history of economic doctrines should be abandoned altogether.
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