empty-headed

Example Sentences

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Tales of crime and punishment may seem as remote from everyday life as empty-headed musicals.

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 14, 2021

He had exactly the right level of empty-headed neediness to play Lost’s ostensible protagonist.

From The Guardian • Jan. 17, 2017

A bug infested Washington: not the flu, but an actual bug that crawled into people’s ears, took over their brains and turned them into empty-headed automatons.

From New York Times • Dec. 5, 2016

Its empty-headed glee pokes fun at the market-tested positivity of Top 40.

From Washington Post • Feb. 20, 2015

She’d come to the Smoke, and had brought the Specials, leaving Shay an empty-headed pretty, and Az dead.

From "Uglies" by Scott Westerfeld