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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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