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
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
The show was looking for his female counterpart, someone they originally envisioned as “a yummy mummy cupcake blogger who’s vacuous and drives a Range Rover,” Brooker says.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 2, 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
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