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词汇 jejune
释义 jejune
adjective
 formaldisapprovinguk /dʒəˈdʒuːn/ us /dʒəˈdʒuːn/
very simple or childish: 简单的;幼稚的,不成熟的
He made jejune generalizations about how all students were lazy and never did any work.他以偏概全地认为所有的学生都很懒,什么都不干。
boring and not interesting : 沉闷乏味的
a jejune lecture by one of our professors我们的教授之一讲的一堂乏味的课
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

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prey
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simple
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unsophisticated
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Boredom, tedium and boring things

Examples of jejune


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The material on the electorate itself was confused, the exposition jejune, the evidence thin.
To think that we can point to a surprising consequence of either view and thereby achieve a quick victory is to view the conflict in too jejune a manner.
I thought that jejune suggestion was only worth laughing at.
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I have never heard a more arid, jejune defence put up to any proposal.
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What can one say about an institution which considers it necessary to spend time on such fatuous and jejune literature?
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He described it as a poll tax wearing a jejune mask.
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I admit that we are jejune, but we are not as infantile as all that.
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I still think that the definition is very jejune.
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I can still recall the jejune embarrassment of the first essays in pay flexibility.
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Apparently the town clerk and the parliamentary agent have issued a miserable jejune document on the subject.
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He knows better than to put that kind of jejune question.
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He is able to read out of that somewhat jejune document the beneficial results which no doubt may flow from it.
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I think he regards in his own mind that this thing is rather jejune.
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He is being a trifle jejune when he uses one sort of criticism on one constitutional aspect and ignores it completely on another.
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They should not imagine that there are not replies to these rather jejune points, because there are.
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