
Definition: 1: lacking nutritive value 2: devoid of significance or interest : dull 3: juvenile, puerile
Eymology: Latin jejunus empty of food, hungry, meager
Quotation:
Reaching for easy irony by jumbling together events large and small, Perlstein piles up jejune incongruities, like: “The month of March came in like a lamb with Frank Sinatra sweeping the Grammy awards and went out like a lion with Jimi Hendrix in the hospital after burning himself while immolating his guitar.” As Truman Capote said of Jack Kerouac’s fiction, that is not writing, that is typing.
- from a review of “Nixonland” in The New York Times Book Review by George F. Will
I can see some snooty, holier-than-thou, thin-cigarette-smoking, beret-wearing, PBR-sipping hipster dismissing just about any statement with this word.
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