Sam Harrelson

nu-ga-to-ry

adj. :: Trifling; vain; futile; insignificant.

adj. :: Of no force; inoperative; ineffectual.

“According to these highly-respectable witnesses, the minister, conscious that he was dying — conscious, also, that the reverence of the multitude placed him already among saints and angels — had desired, by yielding up his breath in the arms of that fallen woman, to express to the world how utterly nugatory is the choicest of man’s own righteousness. — Hawthorne, Nathaniel

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“Attempting to keep a classroom of 20 Hammond students quiet and interested in a lesson is often nugatory.” — Harrelson, Samuel

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