Adjective : inconsequent reasoning. ,an inconsequent remark. ,an inconsequent deduction. ,inconsequent ornamentation. ,a frivolous, inconsequent young man. From Dictionary.com.
But he had the next minute an inconsequent question. From Wordnik.com. [The Ambassadors] Reference
He sputtered inconsequent ejaculations at me in this fashion. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
Why, then, these inconsequent and these irritating denunciations?. From Wordnik.com. [Cotton is King, and Pro-Slavery Arguments Comprising the Writings of Hammond, Harper, Christy, Stringfellow, Hodge, Bledsoe, and Cartrwright on This Important Subject] Reference
She had a strange vague smile and a terribly inconsequent manner. From Wordnik.com. [Death of a Fool]
Marquis de Sevigne, who was as witty as herself and more inconsequent. From Wordnik.com. [The Women of the French Salons] Reference
It was a long and disjointed story, told in the inconsequent fashion of. From Wordnik.com. [Leonie of the Jungle] Reference
There is nothing of melodrama, nothing inconsequent, nothing exaggerated. From Wordnik.com. [Authors of Greece] Reference
"Kenny!" said Joan, somewhat shocked by his inconsequent habits of acquirement. From Wordnik.com. [Kenny] Reference
He likes the mystery of it, the quick action, the hearty, inconsequent refrain. From Wordnik.com. [By the Christmas Fire] Reference
Few words were spoken, save inconsequent remarks now and then on some passing sail. From Wordnik.com. [A Pirate of Parts] Reference
'Barbara' to the inconsequent 'Baby' takes but an instant, and exactly expresses you. From Wordnik.com. [April's Lady A Novel] Reference
The resurrection of his higher nature is like a new creation, secret, sudden, inconsequent. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 01, No. 03, January, 1858] Reference
She was checked, however, on her progress to the door, by an inconsequent request from Isabel. From Wordnik.com. [The Portrait of a Lady] Reference
The remark sounded a little inconsequent in Janetta's ear, but Margaret understood and assented. From Wordnik.com. [A True Friend A Novel] Reference
He is as cheerful and as inconsequent as ever, and his plans for the future seem to me, although. From Wordnik.com. [White Ashes] Reference
Somehow that inconsequent small tendril roused in Billy a thrill of absurd tenderness and delight. From Wordnik.com. [The Palace of Darkened Windows] Reference
He said appointments were not made, probably because of the inconsequent application of affirmative action. From Wordnik.com. [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference
To what inconsequent polysyllabic question of his host did the guest return a monosyllabic negative answer?. From Wordnik.com. [Ulysses] Reference
A vague, inconsequent vision of her coming in some odd way to need it had intervened with the effect of a chill. From Wordnik.com. [The Portrait of a Lady] Reference
She had spoken her thoughts, ignoring, not caring if he thought her, as he had, inconsequent, sentimental, foolish. From Wordnik.com. [Between the Acts] Reference
Yet this conclusion of the intellect did not prevent the pain of pity and compunction, nor an inconsequent sense of guilt. From Wordnik.com. [The Daughters of Danaus] Reference
Other inconsequent questions jutted from the obscurity like the untrimmed overgrowths from the hedges of a neglected maze. From Wordnik.com. [An Excellent Mystery]
Memory is sporadic; memory is capricious; memory is inconsequent, sometimes forgetting the large thing to record the little. From Wordnik.com. [On the Stairs] Reference
The woman he loved had chosen not him but handsome inconsequent Barry Craven and, for her choice, had reaped misery and loneliness. From Wordnik.com. [The Shadow of the East] Reference
A little inconsequent, perhaps at times, but always amenable to reason, when put into a corner, and full of the glad, laughter of youth. From Wordnik.com. [April's Lady A Novel] Reference
They will give a horse a disconnected, an utterly inconsequent "cut," making him spring, to the jeopardy of their own and others 'safety. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 12, No. 69, July, 1863] Reference
DFL said being inconsequent with scientific safeguards would leave ample loopholes to make it virtually inevitable for the general public. From Wordnik.com. [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference
Miss Lillie Ravenel is as charming as her adored papa, and is never less nor more than a bright, lovable, good, constant, inconsequent woman. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 20, No. 117, July, 1867.] Reference
Everything is judged by laws of its being; the diamond must be flawless; the ephemeral creation of fashion may be flimsy, bizarre, inconsequent. From Wordnik.com. [Eve and David] Reference
We do not doubt her truth and good faith; but we confess ourselves puzzled with the contradictory and inconsequent phenomena of modern spiritualism. From Wordnik.com. [The Continental Monthly, Vol. 5, No. 3, March, 1864 Devoted to Literature and National Policy] Reference
'Nothing much; I strained it the other day,' was the reply; and then the seemingly inconsequent remark: 'I'm glad you brought that prismatic compass. From Wordnik.com. [The Riddle of the Sands]
Cervantes distilled and preserved for all time that most quaint, lovable, inconsequent, and chivalrous combination of qualities which constitute a Spanish gentleman. From Wordnik.com. [Spanish Life in Town and Country] Reference
After many days the professor grows accustomed to these sudden transitions that are so puzzling yet so enchanting, these rapid, inconsequent, but always lovely changes. From Wordnik.com. [A Little Rebel A Novel] Reference
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