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- adverb In a
vacuous manner, lacking thought.
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- adverb in a vacuous manner
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Examples
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You mean you can dispose of God that easily and vacuously?
Vincent Bugliosi: Why Do I Doubt Both The Atheists And The Theists? Vincent Bugliosi 2011
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Hilditch, meanwhile, doesn't help himself with vacuously positive public pronouncements that often seem to fly in the place of the very plain evidence of decline on the pitch.
Is It Time to Clear Out Australia's Cricket Selectors? Richard Lord 2011
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She said that was one of her favorite movies while they stared vacuously into the computer screen.
Pretentious College Dropout Suffers Heartbreak, Nobody Cares (Full Story >>) Cupcake Kid 2011
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Despite that he knew what he was to see, when he did turn his head and beheld his wife and Sonny, the pair he had seen thieving in the dark, he went suddenly dizzy, and paused, supporting himself with a hand against a pillar, and smiling vacuously at the grouped singing boys who were pulsing the sensuous night into richer sensuousness with their honi kaua wiki-wiki refrain.
THE KANAKA SURF 2010
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You mean you can dispose of God that easily and vacuously?
Vincent Bugliosi: Why Do I Doubt Both The Atheists And The Theists? Vincent Bugliosi 2011
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Vince (played vacuously as ever by Adrian Grenier) is pressured by an action-film director (Nick Cassavetes, as himself, of course) to perform a dangerous driving stunt on camera.
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I did, however, often dream of the lovely Professor Stix, rather than focus on whatever vacuously pretty rich girl was in my arms at the time.
Masked Lou Anders 2010
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I did, however, often dream of the lovely Professor Stix, rather than focus on whatever vacuously pretty rich girl was in my arms at the time.
Masked Lou Anders 2010
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It is vacuously true that we cannot know exactly how many have died.
Robert Naiman: How Many Iraqis Did We 'Liberate' From Life on Earth? 2010
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Rose, sitting nearby, smiles vacuously and asks, "What's an obscuranist?"
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