Adorno rounded on Marcuse for siding with the students, given their outrageous tactics and their jejune politics that his old, misguided friend seemed to share

for its tonal background will be created by jejune basses

redescribing the nearby intellectual terrain in such a way that the terms used by one's opponent would seem irrelevant, or question-begging, or jejune

beyond his own jejune philosophical agonizings

The counterpart of Kubrick’s jejune liberalism is a jejune nihilism.

material that might strike the sophisticated reader as dated or jejune

He’d thought that not wearing a toga would make him seem too cool for such jejune festivities,

I clocked up the jejune libidos of Shelley and Keats, and took Hardy's Befuddled Will into account

A yearbook signing table. Sam thought it sounded jejune. “People love being jejune,” the party planner assured him.

McCarthy's necronautical games seem the more jejune