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emptily

  • a word derived from empty.

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Glinda’s shtick had me laughing reflexively but emptily.

From Los Angeles Times Dec. 10, 2024

In another a speechless young man, heavily bandaged, gazes emptily into the camera.

From BBC Jun. 5, 2023

“Brown just stood there, staring emptily into chaos,” writes Kent Babb in “Across the River: Life, Death, a nd Football in an American City.”

From Washington Post Aug. 11, 2021

I don’t mean to suggest that this approach is emptily imitative, “all style and no substance.”

From Slate Oct. 26, 2018

The developers built the outer structure quickly and then left it, abandoned and unfinished, its unpaned windows staring emptily out into the Brooklyn skies.

From "Shadowshaper" by Daniel José Older