Sample Sentences for
vacuous
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    Her credentials do not add weight to such vacuous comments.
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    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)
    vacuous = empty
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    "Blood," Henry said, and smiled with a kind of vacuous surprise.  (source)
    vacuous = lacking intelligent thought
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    people were doing "stunts" all over the garden, while happy, vacuous bursts of laughter rose toward the summer sky.  (source)
    vacuous = lacking intelligent thought
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    The bewildering feeling of vacuity laid hold upon me.  (source)
    vacuity = lack of intelligent thought
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    ...bluebottles hum vacuously in the fruity air. Then they stun themselves against clear windowpanes and die,  (source)
    vacuously = in a manner lacking intelligent thought
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    Only Reba, with her light pimply skin and deferential manner, looked as though her simplicity might also be vacuousness.  (source)
    vacuousness = the lack of intelligent thought
    standard suffix: The suffix "-ness" converts an adjective to a noun that means the quality of. This is the same pattern you see in words like darkness, kindness, and coolness.
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    he would not become a ... vain, vacuous speaker;  (source)
    vacuous = lacking intelligent thought
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    In the study of the profession to which he had looked forward all his life he found irritation and vacuity as well as...  (source)
    vacuity = lack of intelligent thought
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    Smoking, he looked vacuously around the room.  (source)
    vacuously = in a manner lacking intelligent thought
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    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)
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    Four other monks surrounded him like disciples, all dressed in the same tattered robes, all bald, all smiling Cacciato's vacuous smile.  (source)
    vacuous = lacking intelligent thought
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    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)
    vacuity = lack of interesting thought
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