vacuous
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Vacuous in its simple, palatable offerings, the experience mirrored its source material perfectly.
From Seattle Times • Feb. 7, 2023
Vacuous truths are seen as more absurd than false, since they are often unfalsifiable and may not even make contact with reality.
From Salon • Sep. 4, 2022
Vacuous generalities, clothed in magnificent rhetoric, could pass with him for ideas; but his visions are sometimes thoughts in images.
From A History of French Literature Short Histories of the Literatures of the World: II. by Gosse, Edmund
Vacuous laughter is the most tiresome of things; a face of stone is more inveigling.
From Memoirs of My Dead Life by Moore, George (George Augustus)
Vacuous, vak′ū-us, adj. empty, void: without intelligence, unexpressive.—v.t.
From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 4 of 4: S-Z and supplements) by Various
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