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

It's the story of Cohn, who at the top of his game adopts and mentors the vacuous and malleable Donald Trump.

From Salon • Oct. 2, 2024

For now she had to figure a way to separate this vacuous girl from her mirrored sunglasses.

From "Artemis Fowl" by Eoin Colfer