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There are too many inane quiz shows on television these days.
He's always making inane remarks.
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There are so many inane programs on television!
I am particularly tempted to deal with some of the more naive and inane ones.
I am bound to say that it is difficult to think of a more inane proposal.
That suggestion is inane because that is not the position.
That is why her speech can be described as being not merely inane and innate but totally inapposite to our problems today.
One cannot help listening to inane conversations, which presumably cost money.
It comes up with suggestions—frankly, quite inane suggestions—that people might be helped to relocate before the airport is built.
Will he withdraw his inane reply and give me a proper reply—a reply to which the unemployed in my constituency are entitled?
I will not be put off my stride by these inane questions.
