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But isn't a state such as Iran being disingenuous when it cries nuclear injustice? practitioners of realpolitik, isn't that jejeune?
Russ Wellen: Is "It's Not Fair" a Childish Response to Being Denied Nuclear Weapons? Russ Wellen 2011
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(After looking up WTF “fatuous” and “jejeune” meant.)
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Previously, I had deployed a regrettably jejeune attitude to carbon emissions.
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Paris stirs the imagination, seduces the senses, and inevitably leaves one feeling very jejeune and jealous.
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[Charlotte] Riddell, "The Open Door" [PDF]: the narrator is entertainingly jejeune.
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And third, does anyone else note the inappropriate and jejeune tone informed, it appears, by The Lord of the Flies?
The Volokh Conspiracy » In Defense of the Office of Legal Counsel: 2007
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[Charlotte] Riddell, "The Open Door" [PDF]: the narrator is entertainingly jejeune.
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Mr Leonard is about to have a book published, entitled in a somewhat jejeune fashion Why Europe Will Run the 21st Century.
What do they think they are up to? Helen 2005
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Some never awake to the consciousness of the better things neglected; and if one, like myself, is at last seized upon by a blended passion for knowledge and for truth, he has probably committed himself by a series of jejeune efforts, the standard of inferiority is erected, and the curse of mere cleverness clings to his name.
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In many circles it's jejeune to even bring it up, since it also opens that whole art-commerce can of worms, and many people associated with comics not only want to believe that commercial considerations have no place in the creation of comics (though they always do; no one creates works they don't expect anyone will want to see) they enjoy reveling in the relative small-timeness of the medium, and the art.
Comic Book Resources 2009
plumpesdenken commented on the word jejeune
Bew pays close attention to the preoccupation of many Victorian intellectuals with Ireland, and deals with the ideas of Mill and others without falling into the jejeune generalisations of post-colonial critique.Foster
December 13, 2007
qroqqa commented on the word jejeune
Common misspelling of 'jejune', probably influenced by French jeune "young", with the presumed connecting meaning "immature". It's actually cognate with the lesser-known (and unrelated) jeûne "fasting".
January 3, 2009
dontcry commented on the word jejeune
"Will he come? The jejune jesuit." - Joyce/Ulysses
Perfect!
January 4, 2009
100000770396756 commented on the word jejeune
qroqqa is correct.
September 11, 2010