Crossword clues for inanities
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Inanity \In*an"i*ty\, n.; pl. Inanities. [L. inanitas, fr. inanis empty: cf. F. inanit['e]. See Inane.]
Inanition; void space; vacuity; emptiness.
Lack of seriousness; aimlessness; frivolity.
An inane, useless thing or pursuit; a vanity; a silly object; -- chiefly in pl.; as, the inanities of the world.
Wiktionary
n. (plural of inanity English)
Usage examples of "inanities".
Zdansky sent Wiman a report, with photographs, about the teeth he had found at Zhoukoudian.
There were plenty of young ladies in England, of high birth and good looks, who would have been quite willing to help him to spend the Blakeney fortune, whilst smiling indulgently at his inanities and his good-humoured foolishness.
Sir Percy’s coats were the talk of the town, his inanities were quoted, his foolish laugh copied by the gilded youth at Almack’s or the Mall.
She despised her husband for his inanities and vulgar, unintellectual occupations.
But it also strengthened her in the now certain knowledge that, with his worldly inanities, his foppish ways, and foolish talk, he was not only wearing a mask, but was playing a deliberate and studied part.
There was an air about the ponderous inanities spoken, which the actors had absorbed like an infection.
It was an air of inanities uttered as revelations and insolently demanding acceptance as such.
She hadn't even thought what their reaction to her would be until a furred, taloned hand took her shoulder and spun her away from the joker mother and two desperately disparate children she was unspooling inanities from, into a hot blast of spoiled-meat predator's breath.
The wall unit blinked to life and offered up a selection of suggested inanities for casual viewing.