The Only Use of
vacuous
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Flowers for Algernon -- Short Story
- His vacant eyes moved across the crowd of amused onlookers, he slowly mirrored their smiles and finally broke into an uncertain grin at the joke which he obviously did not understand. I felt sick inside as I looked at his dull, vacuous smile--the wide, bright eyes of a child, uncertain but eager to please.
p. 15..3vacuous = lacking intelligent thought
Definition:
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(vacuous) lacking intelligent thought