All 3 Uses of
irrelevant
in
To Kill a Mockingbird
- Can't see what witness's literacy has to do with the case, irrelevant 'n' immaterial.
p. 200.9 *irrelevant = not related or significant to the subject being considered
- Slowly but surely I began to see the pattern of Atticus's questions: from questions that Mr. Gilmer did not deem sufficiently irrelevant or immaterial to object to, Atticus was quietly building up before the jury a picture of the Ewells' home life.
p. 208.1
- "Now let's consider this calmly-" began Atticus, but Mr. Gilmer interrupted with an objection: he was not irrelevant or immaterial, but Atticus was browbeating the witness.
p. 211.8
Definition:
not relevant (not related to the subject being considered, or not important enough to want to consider)