as in undesirability
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- undesirability
- meaninglessness
- inexpediency
- uselessness
- inadequacy
- irrelevance
- pointlessness
- inapplicability
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While some recent sales have been sluggish — Susan Gutfreund’s 12,000-square-foot duplex listed for $120 million in 2016 and finally sold for $53 million three years later, that seems more a symptom of delusional pricing than undesirability.—
Kim Velsey,
Curbed,
13 Aug. 2025
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Could meaninglessness itself be a message?—
Joshua Rothman,
New Yorker,
14 Nov. 2025
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The meaninglessness made Kinney’s use of the phrase reach a sort of ultra-virality that has been steadily growing all year.—
Alphonse Pierre,
Pitchfork,
23 Oct. 2025
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Their book asserts without qualification that those few M.P.s who did speak against the act objected only on grounds of inexpediency and unfairness, and never on the principle of the right.—
William Hogeland,
The New Republic,
25 Jan. 2021
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Holding back tears, Marta called out the uselessness of comparing this season to last year’s championship run.—
Tamerra Griffin,
New York Times,
8 Nov. 2025
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Most moving is Packer’s evocation of the choice’s effect on Eliot, who is forced to confront his inadequacies—both real and perceived—as a caregiver and a husband.—
The New Yorker,
New Yorker,
19 Jan. 2026
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Anyone who drives around the Los Angeles basin understands the inadequacy of the freeway system.—
Steven Greenhut,
Oc Register,
9 Jan. 2026
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In 2020, Sportico explored the practical irrelevance of SPARTA.—
Michael McCann,
Sportico.com,
22 Jan. 2026
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According to the product value management (PVM) solution provider, the software platforms that can extend data and workflows across an entire enterprise will dominate, while isolated tools will fade into irrelevance.—
Alexandra Harrell,
Sourcing Journal,
21 Jan. 2026
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Such expeditions can turn into a Buddhistic exercise in enlightened pointlessness.—
Alex Ross,
New Yorker,
24 Nov. 2025
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Defendants rely on cases that, ironically, only confirm the inapplicability of the § 1252(f)(1) bar here.—
New York Times,
New York Times,
2 Dec. 2025
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“Unsatisfactoriness.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/unsatisfactoriness. Accessed 28 Jan. 2026.
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