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Vacuous in a sentence

Vacuous | Vacuously

Vacuous meaning

  1. Empty; void; lacking meaningful content.
  2. Showing a lack of thought or intelligence; vacant.

Using Vacuous

  • The main meaning on this page is: Empty; void; lacking meaningful content. | Showing a lack of thought or intelligence; vacant.
  • Useful related words include: empty, uncommunicative, blank, nonmeaningful.
  • In the example corpus, vacuous often appears in combinations such as: the vacuous, vacuous and, as vacuous.

Context around Vacuous

  • Average sentence length in these examples: 24.2 words
  • Position in the sentence: 1 start, 13 middle, 6 end
  • Sentence types: 19 statements, 1 questions, 0 exclamations

Corpus analysis for Vacuous

  • In this selection, "vacuous" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 24.2 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
  • Around the word, empty, merely, american, long and life stand out and add context to how "vacuous" is used.
  • Recognizable usage signals include ai is vacuous long on and an empty vacuous life bedding. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
  • By corpus frequency, "vacuous" sits close to words such as aar, abdulla and abimbola, which helps place it inside the broader word index.

Example types with vacuous

The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:

I never watched her vacuous advert-within-a-talk-show. (10 words)

He condemned Mr Sunak as “vacuous” and having “absolutely nothing real to say”. (13 words)

Until then I’d considered Sydney Olympic Park – SOP – to be merely vacuous. (13 words)

Those who dismiss the the joint agreement as vague and vacuous and light on detail forget how far the language of the joint declaration has traveled since Trump’s first "fire and fury like the world has never seen" attempt at diplomacy. (42 words)

Cameos from self-aggrandising buffoons Clive Palmer and Sam Newman deserve a special mention: a charismatic but vacuous blend of ignorance and self-interest masquerading as pseudo-science, attracted to the spotlight as flies are attracted to dung. (38 words)

Maybe he was probably satisfied that as long as he kept Awolowo out of Federal Government power, he enjoyed the vacuous post of Governor-General and ceremonial President in which he was of no use to southerners. (37 words)

So why, why, why would they jack in such worthwhile jobs to go on a reality show many feel is vacuous? (21 words)

Example sentences (20)

He condemned Mr Sunak as “vacuous” and having “absolutely nothing real to say”.

It’s one thing if characters are performatively vacant or vacuous — “American Psycho” and “” are long too, but in those books it’s a joke that no one can keep the characters straight.

No, I don’t mean that AI is vacuous, long on hype, and short on substance.

So why, why, why would they jack in such worthwhile jobs to go on a reality show many feel is vacuous?

If Baron wants, he could lead an empty, vacuous life bedding supermodels on mega-yachts, taking a page from the DiCaprio playbook.

It is patronized by the knowledgeable and the vacuous, the purpose oriented and the dilletante, the nihilist and the builder.

With the commentators in the liberal The New York Times and the conservative National Review, the verdict about the interview was that Harris was ‘vacuous’.

A big hmmm for this one, the campiest of the Connerys, the one with cringey gay henchmen and the most vacuous female characters of its day, desporting themselves over the long, dull Vegas bit.

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Bottom line: If Biden is sincere in his desire to unite the nation, then he must condemn these fascist tactics from his supporters or spare us the vacuous platitudes.

Cameos from self-aggrandising buffoons Clive Palmer and Sam Newman deserve a special mention: a charismatic but vacuous blend of ignorance and self-interest masquerading as pseudo-science, attracted to the spotlight as flies are attracted to dung.

I never watched her vacuous advert-within-a-talk-show.

Maybe he was probably satisfied that as long as he kept Awolowo out of Federal Government power, he enjoyed the vacuous post of Governor-General and ceremonial President in which he was of no use to southerners.

Until then I’d considered Sydney Olympic Park – SOP – to be merely vacuous.

But a lot of the pictures were vacuous, pointless space-fillers,” he said.

Nigeria’s politics is where good and competent men and women get into, and become sectioned as part of the vacuous, predatory corrupt class.

The actors did a really superb job with the continually more vacuous characterizations and the special and practical effects teams are mindblowingly unbelievable and only got better.

Defectors to Torah Judaism harbor animosity to Judaism because all they have left is the vacuous, insentient, empty life of Reform Judaism, which offers nothing.

Those who dismiss the the joint agreement as vague and vacuous and light on detail forget how far the language of the joint declaration has traveled since Trump’s first "fire and fury like the world has never seen" attempt at diplomacy.

Amelia begins as a warm-hearted and friendly girl, though sentimental and naive, but by the story's end she is portrayed as vacuous and shallow.

Ethics of property rights begins with recognizing the vacuous nature of the notion of property.

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Common combinations with vacuous

These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:

Frequently asked questions

How do you use "vacuous" in a sentence?
An example: "He condemned Mr Sunak as “vacuous” and having “absolutely nothing real to say”." This page contains 10+ example sentences with the word "vacuous" from authentic English texts.
What does "vacuous" mean?
Vacuous means: Empty; void; lacking meaningful content.
What are synonyms of "vacuous"?
Common synonyms of "vacuous" include: empty, uncommunicative, blank, nonmeaningful, meaningless, hollow, foolish, mindless. Plus 4 more synonyms.
How many example sentences with "vacuous" are there?
Voorbeeldzinnen.info contains at least 10+ example sentences with "vacuous", drawn from a database of millions of English sentences.