jejunelyadv.
/dʒᵻˈdʒuːnli/, U.S. /dʒəˈdʒunli/ In a jejune manner; meagrely, insipidly.
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society > leisure > the arts > literature > style of language or writing > weakness or feebleness > [adverb]
faintingly1576
jejunely1615
unforcibly1831
pithlessly1884
1615 E. Hoby Curry-combe ii. 100 The Knight saw how Ieiunely his Aduersary pleaded for Purgatory.
1665 R. Boyle New Exper. & Observ. Cold 475 Other learned writers..have handled it exceedingly jejunely.
1804–6 S. Smith Elem. Sketches Moral Philos. (1850) 170.
1850 H. Taylor Sicilian Summer i. ii And teach us, not jejunely what we are, But what we may be when the Parian block Yields to the hand of Phidias.
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