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noun

aridity

the quality of yielding nothing of value

In a sentence

Six example sentences with aridity, each labelled with its topic.

  • Decades of aridity turned the lake bed into cracked salt where not even scrub willow takes root.

    Environment

  • Guides warn that the plateau's aridity supports no grazing for ninety miles, so the herders truck fodder in from the valley.

    Travel

  • Critics blamed the novel's aridity, three hundred pages of clean prose that left the reader with no idea worth keeping.

    Literature

  • Students complained about the aridity of the seminar, a term of definitions that never touched a single real question.

    Philosophy

  • Reviewers noted the aridity of the album, ten technically flawless tracks without one melody anyone could hum.

    Music

  • The consultant's report had a certain aridity, forty pages of charts that recommended nothing the board could act on.

    Business

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