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vacuous

[vak-yoo-uhs] / ˈvæk yu əs /


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The few other highlights in the show are overwhelmed by a surfeit of lifeless abstractions, eye-glazing prints and vacuous conceptual works.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 6, 2026

Instead it sent him on empty assignments, like meandering the vacuous desert sprawl.

From Slate • Feb. 2, 2026

As for the music itself, while it was enough to convince some fans, the lack of actual human creative input made it sound "vacuous and pristine", she says.

From BBC • Aug. 22, 2025

For Lamar, the decadelong rap battle stems from his lifelong disdain for gangster cosplay and the vacuous monetizing of Black culture.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 19, 2025

Whatever it is, that same look I see in those pictures, noble and vacuous, was the look I saw in Mable Jones.

From "Between the World and Me" by Ta-Nehisi Coates




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