All 9 Uses
irrelevant
in
All the King's Men
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- You could hear one insane and irrelevant July fly sawing away up in one of the catalpa trees in the square.†
Chpt 1 *irrelevant = not relevant (not related to the subject being considered, or not important enough to want to consider)
- Then added irrelevantly, "Es como un santito."†
Chpt 5irrelevantly = in a manner that is not relevant (not related to the subject being considered, or not important enough to want to consider)
- It didn't matter a damn to whom he gave it, for the fact of giving was what mattered, and if you happened to be handy you were automatically endowed with all the appropriate attributes of a friend and forever after your reality is irrelevant.†
Chpt 6irrelevant = not relevant (not related to the subject being considered, or not important enough to want to consider)
- "You are completely irrelevant," he said.†
Chpt 6
- "So I am irrelevant," I said, and got out of the chair.†
Chpt 6
- We argued all night and I always won, but you—you bastard—" and I slapped him on the shoulder—"you always said I was irrelevant.†
Chpt 6
- But little Jackie is never irrelevant.†
Chpt 6
- Back in August she had mentioned the plan, the date of departure, but without pleasure or displeasure, as though it were something completely irrelevant to us, the way a young person mentions death.†
Chpt 7
- "The son-of-a-bitch," Dr. Simmons said irrelevantly.†
Chpt 9irrelevantly = in a manner that is not relevant (not related to the subject being considered, or not important enough to want to consider)
Definitions:
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(1)
(irrelevant) not relevant (not related to the subject being considered, or not important enough to want to consider)
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)