unsubstantial
IPA: ʌnsʌbstˈæntʃʌɫ
adjective
- (archaic) Insubstantial.
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Examples of "unsubstantial" in Sentences
- Funny that a video about information literacy includes such an unsubstantial claim.
- There's nothing like emotional substance, even in an ostensibly unsubstantial thriller.
- Even before the protests, female political power and representation in Mubarak's Egypt was unsubstantial and token at best.
- "Something like a London fog" it has been called, "only a dust fog," – an animated fog in which everything unsubstantial is fair prey.
- His flesh as unsubstantial as cobwebs, veins and arteries, tendons and muscles all clear beneath the ethereal shine of translucent skin.
- To say that Colbert's testimony was surprisingly unsubstantial, if funny, would be unfair, because it would imply we expected celebrity testimony before congress to be anything other than unsubstantial.
- You never report facts until unsubstantial claims contrary to the truth have been proven false, ( 'ie death panels, the public option is a government take over of health care), and then you want to do your so called fact check, it's more like, after the fact check.
- Front, Churchill in his latest push had expressed unshaken confidence in the allied conduct of the war, and Roosevelt according to a recent speech was supremely optimistic as to the final outcome of the conflict, all very vague and unsubstantial, but, heartening, never the less.
- But I still think it remains a fair question: Would the not-unsubstantial investment in an MSR mission designed to ferry a cache of tiny surface scratchings to earthside labs be all that more efficient/cost-effective than sending along a team of trained geologists to manage the collection with a robust on-site laboratory available for immediate assessment of specimen value?
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