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adjective

jejune

naive, simplistic, and superficial

In a sentence

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

  • The critic dismissed the exhibition as jejune, a room of bright slogans with nothing behind them.

    Art

  • His argument struck the seminar as jejune, resting on a single example he had never bothered to examine.

    Philosophy

  • The candidate's jejune answer on trade repeated a slogan and left every reporter in the room unsatisfied.

    Politics

  • Reviewers called the debut novel jejune, since its villain was simply cruel and its hero simply kind.

    Literature

  • The pitch was jejune, promising to fix education with an app and offering no thought about who would pay.

    Startups

  • The sequel's jejune script treats every problem as something a car chase can solve.

    Movies

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