vacuously
- a word derived from vacuous.
Example Sentences
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Fortunately, the majority of those chanting such slogans have no idea what they are shouting about, and are just vacuously following the herd.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 15, 2025
Back at the studio the anchors vacuously nod at Nandor's escalating trumpery, as they do when The Guide wrests Joanna's microphone away to parley on behalf of all vampires.
From Salon ● Aug. 4, 2023
Working with the screenwriter Seth W. Owen, and expanding some of the ideas in his 2012 short film, “Loom,” Mr. Scott creates a disappointingly skeletal Frankenstein story that entertains efficiently but vacuously.
From New York Times ● Sep. 1, 2016
Luthor’s quotations and references serve a similar function, vacuously indicating a kind of insight that the movie is too lazy to develop, a parody of cleverness and cultivation.
From Slate ● Mar. 29, 2016
As soon as she saw the Wart, she began wagging her whole body, grinning vacuously, and panting in her efforts to lick his face, in spite of the cord.
From "The Once and Future King" by T. H. White
