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nugatory

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8 lettersPronunciation /ˈn(j)uːɡətɔɹi/Part of speech adjectiveSorted agnortuyStarts with NEnds with Y0 clues
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Definitions

  1. of no real value

Word origin

Borrowed from Latin nūgātōrius.

Used in a sentence

  • I might refer to the general conviction and the common sense of society that such an investment cannot be treated as absolutely idle and nugatory.
  • Bartolomé de las Casas’s critique of the cruelty of the Conquistadors led to his official appointment as ‘Protector of the Indians’ and to the passage of the New Laws which gave the Indians some nugatory protection.
  • The government’s response has been nugatory, its mean mitigations mostly in loans that only stoke future problems for households: high energy prices are not set to be a brief spike.

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