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Перевод: pointless
[прилагательное] тупой; незаостренный; бессмысленный; бесцельный; с неоткрытым счетом
Тезаурус:
- It is quite pointless for critics of evolutionary thinking to waste time and space on a denigration of the hunches of earlier phases of an evolutionary inquiry when neither contemporary sources of information nor current developments in selection theory had arisen.
- James Dawe, eight, objected to a pointless underwater scene where the adult Peter Pan was besieged by three mermaids, each bestowing a lingering kiss.
- David calmly pointed out that the scheme would have been pointless if the "enemy" had known of our intentions.
- I said as much when Thrones first came out, remarking on the insanely pointless jocularity of "Noll" for Oliver Cromwell and "Charlie" for Charles I. Harsh words!
- The fact that this was credible only if the youth was retarded made the moral crux which followed rather pointless.
- UTTERLY POINTLESS.
- A thousand needs that I've spent most of my teenage years pretending don't exist, and when they've made themselves felt, so strongly that I can't fail to be aware of them, I've crushed them, trying to control my appetite and cravings in every way that I know, fighting a pointless and endless war against myself.
- Even at the time it seemed to me that it was pointless to be vindictive or even to allot responsibility for such happenings.
- He moves the pointless pawn another square.
- But the most preposterous law of all, a law so pointless as to scamper along the outer margins of the surreal, is the Swedish one that requires motorists to drive with their headlights on during the daytime, even on the sunniest summer afternoon.
- Complicated family inter-connections are all trotted out in pointless detail, designed, presumably, to show just how very "in" is Lady Colin Campbell.
- But hadn't it been a mistake though, he thought, wasn't it more pointless than most evenings?
- She sat and stared along the Edge, down into the dale, not bothering to strain her ears and listen to the radio, because she knew it was pointless.
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