'jejune' is a correct and usable word in written English.
You can use it to describe something as being dull, childish, or lacking in substance. For example: "The children's book was full of jejune illustrations and stories."
Not just wrong, but tactically jejune.
Schuette asks whether the 14th amendment's equal-protection clause bars states from ending racially conscious admissions policies.The oral argument last week made the issues in Fisher look jejune by comparison.
Bagehot's vocabulary is certainly pellucid, in that the words mean exactly what he intends, unlike the mysterious utterances of adolescents or the various impenetrable professional jargons of today.Hilary Potts LondonSIR – I was intrigued by the absence of "rebarbative", "jejune" and "ineluctable" from the reader's "Concise Oxford English Dictionary".
What lies beneath, allegedly, is a party at once anachronistic, parochial, extremist, jejune and heartless.
Mr Cameron is preferred as a national leader, something often attributed to his opponent's presentational problems and perceived immaturity.Mr Miliband's speech to a union rally last month, in which he excitedly compared the campaign against cuts to that against apartheid, made him look hopelessly jejune.
It seems to hold the North's jejune despot, Kim Jong Un, in even lower esteem than it did his predecessor and father, Kim Jong Il.
And for all Mr Cameron's own calm plausibility, in the new atmosphere of austerity his front-bench team has come to seem vulnerably jejune.
It was as juvenile as the rest of the jejune copy inside.
She seems a rather creepy, jejune and adolescent fantasy.Running throughout this book, as through "Everyman" and its successor, "Exit Ghost", is an odd feeling of contempt for the reader not because Mr Roth writes so unremittingly about death, solitude and infirmity, nor because his protagonists wallow in misery, but because characters soliloquise indifferently instead of talking.
Rapidly improvised and written only weeks or days ahead of its serial publication, Pickwick contains weak and jejune passages and is an unsatisfactory whole partly because Dickens was rapidly developing his craft as a novelist while writing and publishing it.
Chaucer's abandonment of this engaging but ultimately jejune metre in favour of a 10-syllable line (specifically, iambic pentameter) was a portentous moment for English poetry.
