Jejune: an adjective. Naive, superficial and simplistic. Could also mean dry and uninteresting.
Derivatives:
Jejunely, Jejuness
How to use it in a sentence:
Ex. 1: My jejune understanding of water law is unsurprising, considering I haven't attended class since February 14th.
Ex. 2: No matter how you slice it, Paris Hilton's jejune perception of human nature is not the reason she has widely disappeared from the radar the last couple of months- thank her brilliant publicist for that feat of rehabilitating her over-exposed public image.
Ex. 3: She jejunely asked him about his day. As he droned on, her eyes glazed over as she secretly pondered her decimated tourney bracket (which began with such high hopes... and met quite the poetic end)... and his technical difficulties in bed the night before.
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