empty-headed

Example Sentences

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But “no-brainer” takes on a dual meaning when it comes to “Five Nights at Freddy’s 2,” a laughably cheesy, empty-headed follow-up that makes the mediocre prior film shine in comparison.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 5, 2025

But, as with so much ambitious, empty-headed, underwhelming, ultimately depressing tech, the action that’s provoked by this expensive spectacle is merely a passing moment of “whoa.”

From New York Times • Jul. 2, 2023

As portrayed with savage acuity by Claybourne Elder, the airline worker is still hilariously empty-headed, but doesn’t come across as so crudely caricatured.

From Washington Post • Dec. 9, 2021

Indeed, while he had tended to dismiss much of Paul's recent work as empty-headed instances of bubblegum pop, this new tune had truly caught his imagination.

From Salon • Mar. 14, 2020

She’d come to the Smoke, and had brought the Specials, leaving Shay an empty-headed pretty, and Az dead.

From "Uglies" by Scott Westerfeld