vacuous

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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

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

I continued to issue vacuous appeals about how cool and sick and insane this was.

From Slate • Jun. 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

There was something vacuous and stupid about it, flapping out there in the middle of nowhere, something empty, banal, brutish.

From "The Secret History" by Donna Tartt