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Feb. 05, 2016
nugatory \NOO-guh-tawr-ee, -tohr-ee, NYOO-\ adjective
1. of no real value; trifling; worthless.
2. of no force or effect; ineffective; futile; vain.
Quotes Just at the moment, he was covering Art in a provincial paper
for a financially nugatory consideration: a disadvantageous
circumstance which he would explain as arising solely from his
exceptional professional integrity.
-- Michael Innes, Money from Holme, 1964 Origin Nugatory stems from the
Latin nÅ«gÄrÄ« meaning "to trifle." It entered English around 1600.
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