They were not interested in carrying the furniture up the stairs for such a nugatory reward. From LearnThat.org.
A nugatory law. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
As TV and the Internet converge into something generically known as broadband, the distinctions between the two will soon become nugatory from a consumer point of view. From Wordnik.com. [The Revolution Will Be Televised] Reference
As soon as the lords were out of Henry's reach, the Scots Estates demanded modifications in the proposed treaty which would have made it nugatory from the English point of view. From Wordnik.com. [England under the Tudors] Reference
Yesterday's term was nugatory, which is defined as. From Wordnik.com. [Define That Term #45] Reference
Sorry, I just had to get 'nugatory' into a sentence. From Wordnik.com. [Even in a little thing] Reference
I spent yesterday writing the icky sequences of the WIP and the end is in sight for it and I decided that my celebration would be to keep 'nugatory' alive in my vocabulary. From Wordnik.com. [Even in a little thing] Reference
MacDonnell was rendered nugatory is evidence of that. From Wordnik.com. [Ireland and the Home Rule Movement] Reference
Western Cape, "beyond his powers, nugatory and of no force and effect". From Wordnik.com. [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference
And sure, it was just some pseudo-philosophical, nugatory babble, but where had it come from?. From Wordnik.com. [Half Asleep in Frog Pajamas]
The attempt was rendered nugatory by the loyal attitude of the Swiss Minister in Berlin, Roth. From Wordnik.com. [William of Germany] Reference
"From the very beginning, the TRC process has been biased and nugatory of its intended purposes.". From Wordnik.com. [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference
It made him look on Purbank, whom he had almost dismissed as of nugatory interest, with new eyes. From Wordnik.com. [The Speaker Of Mandarin]
Threats from there - hot air and light weaponry - are nugatory compared to one we must now confront. From Wordnik.com. [Tony Hendra: Enough Spin Already: Bush and Cheney Lied, Iran Didn't] Reference
The success of the country in stock-raising may very easily be rendered nugatory if the exclusion of. From Wordnik.com. [Ireland and the Home Rule Movement] Reference
A threat to kill or kidnap individuals - say, King Hiram himself - would have been nugatory, if not empty. From Wordnik.com. [Time Patrolman]
Its structure is amendable to blocking majority rule by rendering the demand for a Constituent Assembly nugatory. From Wordnik.com. [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference
This called forth the opposition of Fox, who objected to the motion as nugatory and productive of unnecessary delay. From Wordnik.com. [The History of England in Three Volumes, Vol.III. From George III. to Victoria] Reference
Ireland are such as to render proportional representation within Ireland either impracticable or nugatory in its effect. From Wordnik.com. [Proportional Representation A Study in Methods of Election] Reference
Instead of abrogating the treaties, they aimed, by evasions and restrictions, to render nugatory many of their stipulations. From Wordnik.com. [Continental Monthly, Vol. 4, No 3, September 1863 Devoted to Literature and National Policy] Reference
You know, it didn't matter, you know, so I thought that was ridiculous interpretation, because that rendered nugatory that Motor. From Wordnik.com. [Oral History Interview with Ellen W. Gerber, February 18 and March 24, 1992. Interview C-0092. Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007)] Reference
The family had a bond of union in their respect for Lorne, and this absence of nugatory inclinations in him was among its elements. From Wordnik.com. [The Imperialist] Reference
In any event, it will be obviously nugatory for the Government directly to prohibit British subjects from importing opium into China. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 53, No. 327, January, 1843] Reference
Without this proper exertion of power, the blockade would have been rendered nugatory by the advantage thus taken of the neutral flag. From Wordnik.com. [The Life of Horatio Lord Nelson]
This arrangement, however, was to some extent rendered nugatory by cute people who had what was pithily termed "a leg" of the butcher. From Wordnik.com. [The Siege of Kimberley] Reference
This space required to be defended in time of war, and it rendered the whole of one face of the cantonment nugatory for purposes of defence. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 53, No. 328, February, 1843] Reference
Regretting that all my efforts for alleviating the sufferings of wounded men left upon the battle-field have been rendered nugatory, I remain. From Wordnik.com. [Memoirs of the Union's Three Great Civil War Generals] Reference
An agreement entered into in perfect faith, but which the jealousy of the exercise of search in any form rendered nugatory for half a century. From Wordnik.com. [Albert Gallatin American Statesmen Series, Vol. XIII] Reference
Nor were they all nugatory: Synesius 'praise of baldness, for instance, calls into question the basis for a socially important aesthetic preference. From Wordnik.com. [LITERARY PARADOX] Reference
Nevertheless his influence has been nugatory in physi - ological theory but vast in psychology, because the behaviorists later seized upon his findings. From Wordnik.com. [BEHAVIORISM] Reference
Still, many husbands know that nature often renders nugatory the most subtle calculations, and reconquers the rights which they have striven to frustrate. From Wordnik.com. [Searchlights on Health: Light on Dark Corners A Complete Sexual Science and a Guide to Purity and Physical Manhood, Advice To Maiden, Wife, And Mother, Love, Courtship, And Marriage] Reference
On the other hand, the practical value of whining about what Facebook is doing to us and our precious society is nugatory — save for exercising the lungs. From Wordnik.com. [Facebook <i>This</i>, Baby! A Fan's Harangue] Reference
One solitary offer to Eugenia, of an every way ruined young nobleman, though a blast both to the settlement and the peace of Indiana, was to herself wholly nugatory. From Wordnik.com. [Camilla] Reference
With so little life left in the government, the cost to the careers of Labour mutineers would be nugatory; indeed, their stature might be enhanced if the plot came off. From Wordnik.com. [Gordon Brown, Charlie Whelan and Me] Reference
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