inanely

All the evening we sat, almost in silence, inanely smirking at each other and listening to the rain.

I was speaking with your father last night, he said, at last, somewhat inanely.

Each of them was Tommy Atkins—the inanely smirking hero of the picture-paper and the funny paragraph.

The quotation, lilted inanely as a nursery rime, pierced her heart like a flight of silver arrows.

His eye fell on the terra-cotta Parisienne dancing inanely on her pedestal, and he moaned like one in pain.