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View definitions for empty suit

empty suit

noun as in paper tiger

noun as in straw man

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One Democratic operative told me, a few days before Joe Biden stood down, that Ms Harris was nothing more than “an empty suit who has neither an ideological rudder or a moral compass”.

From BBC

Trump’s former attorney Ty Cobb, quoted in the Independent Friday, gave the convention high marks for its theatrics but said Trump is an empty suit of blind ambition and no principles.

From Salon

He's an empty suit of plastic emotions bound in hubris and anger.

From Salon

She’s not a shell, or in words we would apply to a man of her ilk, an empty suit.

From Salon

The fact is, I’m also thankful many are aware that Trump is nothing but an empty suit who loathes everyone and everything on Earth – including himself.

From Salon

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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