- meaningless words
- words that have no meaning, empty words
English contemporary dictionary. 2014.
meaningless words
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Meaningless statement — A meaningless statement is a statement which posits nothing of substance which can be agreed or disagreed with. In the context of logical fallacies, the inclusion of a meaningless statement in the premises of the argument will undermine the… … Wikipedia
meaningless — Synonyms and related words: absurd, aimless, amorphous, asinine, blank, bootless, capricious, casual, designless, desultory, disarticulated, discontinuous, disinclined to communicate, disjunct, disordered, dispersed, disproportionate, empty,… … Moby Thesaurus
vestigial words or phrases — Words or phrases which have been permitted to remain in a statute after it has been amended, but which are rendered useless and meaningless by the amendment. Saltonstall v Birtwell, 164 US 54, 70, 41 L Ed 348, 353, 17 S Ct 19 … Ballentine's law dictionary
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vestigial words — /vestijal wardz/ Those contained in a statute which by reason of a succession of statutes on the same subject matter, amending or modifying previous provisions of the same, are rendered useless or meaningless by such amendments. They should not… … Black's law dictionary
empty rhetoric — meaningless words, empty words … English contemporary dictionary
