Nothings
[nʌθiŋz]
Definition
(noun.) inconsequential conversation; 'they traded a few nothings as they parted'.
Edited by Josie--From WordNet
Examples
- What set me on about country boys, and runaways, and good-for-nothings? Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- Miss Fanny was excessively courteous to her, and said the usual nothings with the skill of a veteran. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
- Last nothings are any good. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- They had been on the same side, and, on the death of their party, many had become Know-Nothings, or members of the American party. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- In pompous nothings on his side, and civil assents on that of his cousins, their time passed till they entered Meryton. Jane Austen. Pride and Prejudice.
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