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
As I’ve written previously, Bankman-Fried exploited the vacuity of crypto by slathering it over with what sounded like profundities but was vacuous gibberish.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 15, 2024
I felt sick inside as I looked at his dull, vacuous smile—the wide, bright eyes of a child, uncertain but eager to please, and I realized what I had recognized in him.
From "Flowers for Algernon" by Daniel Keyes
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