Adjective : the vacuous air. ,a vacuous mind. ,a vacuous book. ,a vacuous way of life. From Dictionary.com.
For better effect, he blinked vacuously, and gurgled. From Wordnik.com. [Heart of the Blue Ridge] Reference
Henry smiled vacuously and said, "It was introduced yesterday.". From Wordnik.com. [Wild Justice] Reference
Wade stared almost vacuously at her as she ran on with her news. From Wordnik.com. [Hidden Gold] Reference
It is vacuously true that we cannot know exactly how many have died. From Wordnik.com. [Robert Naiman: How Many Iraqis Did We 'Liberate' From Life on Earth?] Reference
( "Some S is not P") are vacuously true if their subjects are empty. From Wordnik.com. [The Traditional Square of Opposition] Reference
Rose, sitting nearby, smiles vacuously and asks, "What's an obscuranist?". From Wordnik.com. [Best Left Unsaid: intro and ch.01] Reference
Those three leaders vigorously, and some might say vacuously, defended NAFTA. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Apr 24, 2008] Reference
We shall ignore the first case in which the counterfactual is vacuously true. From Wordnik.com. [My Shasta Daisy] Reference
The Slavic supermodel was dangling on his arm, vacuously staring off into space. From Wordnik.com. [cat’s meow] Reference
Other teenagers who smiled vacuously and swayed to the music from their Sony Walkmans. From Wordnik.com. [The Legend of the Slain Soldiers]
Melanie Phillips is one of the most vacuously aggressive people I have ever come across. From Wordnik.com. [On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...] Reference
I have never heard anything so fatuous and vacuously circular and tautologous in my life. From Wordnik.com. [On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...] Reference
Or sit vacuously on Skytrain with their treble sneaking out of their ears and into yours. From Wordnik.com. [Horse-O-Phonic 8-track saddlebag system « raincoaster] Reference
Again, the image of willing nothing is at once vacuously negative and disturbingly positive. From Wordnik.com. [Hegel on Buddhism] Reference
The challenge insists that they are all vacuously true simply in virtue of their logical form. From Wordnik.com. [Reasons for Action: Agent-Neutral vs. Agent-Relative] Reference
In some cases, the victims hid their eyes altogether and grinned vacuously at absolutely nothing. From Wordnik.com. [Rebellion] Reference
She speaks vacuously of being under world-dominance, and has absolutely no physical consciousness. From Wordnik.com. [Sunny Slopes] Reference
Her wide eyes were china blue, her nose piquantly retroussé and she was as vacuously pretty as a wax doll. From Wordnik.com. [The Fifth Ace] Reference
We can all agree she doesn't have a clue what she's talking about and is just vacuously reciting words put in front of her?. From Wordnik.com. [Palin Attacks Obama Over Pakistan Policy She Agreed With] Reference
I'd rather have an outspoken, intelligent First Spouse than one that just smiles vacuously at events like Mrs. McCain does. From Wordnik.com. [Obama: GOP trying to make me and Michelle 'scary'] Reference
Two young men in brown robes like furniture-covers were gesturing vacuously and droning cryptic sentences full of repetitions. From Wordnik.com. [Main Street] Reference
Can I interest you in a book about a black cat who chews off her fur, and stares at you vacuously while you make coffee every morning?. From Wordnik.com. [Current Events in Slush] Reference
'Oh -- for nothing,' the curate vacuously remarked. From Wordnik.com. [Evan Harrington — Complete] Reference
Here the taxi-driver bethought himself, and grinned vacuously. From Wordnik.com. [One Wonderful Night A Romance of New York] Reference
Then we sat down and smiled upon each other largely and vacuously. From Wordnik.com. [The Right Stuff Some Episodes in the Career of a North Briton] Reference
The cook turned his watery blue eyes upon Rokoff and smiled vacuously. From Wordnik.com. [Beasts of Tarzan] Reference
Was that in effect to prove the point you attempt to make so vacuously?. From Wordnik.com. [Politics.ie] Reference
The soldier looked first puzzled, then vacuously wise; then he knit his brows and looked at the oxen. From Wordnik.com. [The Raid from Beausejour; and How the Carter Boys Lifted the Mortgage] Reference
Occasionally the talk lapsed, and the substitute assistant merely looked, looked and smiled vacuously. From Wordnik.com. [The Woman-Haters: a yarn of Eastboro twin-lights] Reference
Sometimes he shook, sometimes he nodded his head; now he frowned, then grinned vacuously at the current of his thoughts. From Wordnik.com. [Lying Prophets] Reference
And spare me/us the infantile argumentative garbage vacuously inserting "bigotry" and "racism" for dramatic liberal effect. From Wordnik.com. [CTV BritishColumbiaHome] Reference
The only real positive I see related to him is that he has vacuously attempted to distance himself from the term "drug war". From Wordnik.com. [AlterNet] Reference
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