vacuous

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Her credentials do not add weight to such vacuous comments.

The only solution was to try to unmake the world, to make it black and silent and uninhabited again, to return to the moment before the Big Bang, in the beginning when there was the Word, and to live in that vacuous untreated space alone with the Word.  (source) John Green, The Fault in Our Stars, 2012

For now she had to figure a way to separate this vacuous girl from her mirrored sunglasses.  (source) Eoin Colfer, Artemis Fowl, 2001

A vacuous crooning noise came from her slack mouth.  (source) Stephen King, The Shining, 1977

In the study of the profession to which he had looked forward all his life he found irritation and vacuity as well as...  (source) Sinclair Lewis, Arrowsmith, 1925

...bluebottles hum vacuously in the fruity air. Then they stun themselves against clear windowpanes and die,  (source) Arundhati Roy, The God of Small Things, 1997

Only Reba, with her light pimply skin and deferential manner, looked as though her simplicity might also be vacuousness.  (source) Toni Morrison, Song of Solomon, 1977

As it turned out, though, Josie Cormier had grown into a stunning young woman, one who was quiet and thoughtful and not at all like the vacuous, material girls who trolled the Mall of New Hampshire or encompassed the social elite of Sterling High--girls Lacy had always likened to black widow spiders, looking for someone they could destroy.  (source) Jodi Picoult, Nineteen Minutes, 2007

The bewildering feeling of vacuity laid hold upon me.  (source) Jules Verne, A Journey to the Center of the Earth, 1877

ESTRAGON: I've forgotten. (Chews.) ... Ah yes, now I remember. VLADIMIR: Well? ESTRAGON: (his mouth full, vacuously). We're not...  (source) Samuel Beckett, Waiting for Godot, 1953

Now it would be the bearded, monarchical, benevolent head of the Grand Duke; then the sharp-featured, brown, cavalry-moustached feature of the chief of police; then the globular, polished and high-collared vacuousness that represented Monsieur Schontz, the proprietor of the hotel.†  (source) Ford Madox Ford, The Good Soldier, 1915

All I can do is put in time waiting for the inevitable, observing as the ghosts of my past rattle around my vacuous present.  (source) Sara Gruen, Water for Elephants, 2007

Such sudden alternations from mental vacuity do sometimes occur thus quietly. She could never have believed in the morning that her colourless inner world would before night become as animated as water under a microscope,  (source) Thomas Hardy, The Return of the Native, 1878