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adjective

vacuous

devoid of intelligence or thought

In a sentence

Six example sentences with vacuous, each labelled with its topic.

  • The speech was vacuous, forty minutes of applause lines that committed the party to nothing anyone could later check.

    Politics

  • The romantic lead is written as vacuous, staring prettily at sunsets while everyone around her carries the plot.

    Movies

  • The mission statement is vacuous, six abstract nouns in a row that would suit a bakery or a shipyard equally.

    Business

  • The professor called the essay vacuous, twenty pages of grand words about truth with not one real thought behind them.

    Philosophy

  • The pitch deck was vacuous, ten slides of buzzwords with no mention of who the customer was or what they would pay.

    Startups

  • Critics called the lyrics vacuous, three rhymes about summer repeated until the chorus meant nothing at all.

    Music

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