empty suit
Example Sentences
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Jessie saying "night night" and giving a salute to an empty suit of armour on her way out of the castle one evening was perhaps the epitome of her brilliant eccentricity.
From BBC • Jan. 23, 2026
McCarthy is an empty suit, a man without taste or style.
From Salon • Jan. 12, 2023
Mr. Ossoff, meanwhile, is presenting a clean-cut look, offering himself up as a policy-wise technocrat and pushing back against attempts to cast him as an empty suit.
From Washington Times • Dec. 23, 2020
When I was young, a man like this would have been called an empty suit.
From New York Times • Mar. 14, 2016
He’s a scarecrow, an empty suit of straw.
From "The Bletchley Riddle" by Ruta Sepetys and Steve Sheinkin
