| 词汇 | nugatory |
| 释义 | nugatory adjective formaluk /ˈnjuː.ɡə.tər.i/ us /ˈnuː.ɡə.tɔːr.i/ worth nothing or of little value: 无价值的，无意义的 a nugatory amount微不足道的小钱 Useless and futile adrift aimless aimlessly aimlessness airy-fairy fruitless fruitlessly fruitlessness futile futilely negate negation no goodidiom non-viable ornamental unrealistic unrealistically unseriousness until you are blue in the faceidiom unviability Examples of nugatorynugatory The fact that joint exercise of sovereignty has been found advantageous in certain cases did not mean that separate exercise would be nugatory. The state at a local level was less robust, but its influence was more than nugatory. It is, on the contrary, a nugatory quantity, on an equal footing with that of all the huge number of alternative versions of theism discussed earlier. If the self were not continuous, it could disavow responsibility for what it had done in the past; such a situation rendered morality, legal responsibility and sin nugatory. How much, in fact, has been rendered nugatory because there is not any accommodation available to which sailors' wives can be taken? From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 And after enormous expense a proposal can be made, fought through a variety of procedure, and, after all, withdrawn as purely nugatory. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 In similar fashion, the joint industrial agreements in the construction industry are rendered nugatory. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Savings around the country will be very modest—nugatory even. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 But since then we have learned that this safeguard is absolutely nugatory. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 That being so, the right conferred by clause 3(2) is nugatory. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 We have the authority to set up the headquarters building, and that is not nugatory. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Work involved in their production would inevitably be largely nugatory. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 The giving of an order for the transfer of the tenancy to the housewife might be completely nugatory. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 I do not pretend it is, but it is not a nugatory procedure. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 But if both the locks opened with the same key, the protection given would be nugatory. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |
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