Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The state of being vacuous, in either sense; vacuity.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The quality or state of being vacuous; emptiness; vacuity.
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- noun the quality of being
vacuous
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun indicative of or marked by mental vacuity and an absence of ideas
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Examples
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Last night Tory Derek claimed he was fed up with the other housemates' "vacuousness" sic.
Archive 2005-07-01 Kerron Cross 2005
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The plaintive cry "Don't let the Government get its hands on my Medicare," might be apocryphal, but it highlights the vacuousness of a political movement that is built on deliberate denial by Americans of their own responsibility for the straits in which we find ourselves.
David Paul: The Problem Is Not Jon Stewart David Paul 2010
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The plaintive cry "Don't let the Government get its hands on my Medicare," might be apocryphal, but it highlights the vacuousness of a political movement that is built on deliberate denial by Americans of their own responsibility for the straits in which we find ourselves.
David Paul: The Problem Is Not Jon Stewart David Paul 2010
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Herman "I don't have facts to back this up" Cain -- whose surge in the polls underscores the vacuousness of both Romney and Perry -- was recently given an opportunity by MSNBC's Lawrence O'Donnell to acknowledge that sexual preference isn't a choice.
Michael Sigman: Note to GOP: Sometimes an Opinion Isn't Just an Opinion Michael Sigman 2011
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The plaintive cry "Don't let the Government get its hands on my Medicare," might be apocryphal, but it highlights the vacuousness of a political movement that is built on deliberate denial by Americans of their own responsibility for the straits in which we find ourselves.
David Paul: The Problem Is Not Jon Stewart David Paul 2010
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As for Michelle Rhee, I heartily advise you distance yourself from her before the extent of her vacuousness becomes obvious.
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I think that all Paul (Miles) G did was expose American wine consumers as the fickle mob that they are, further validating the vacuousness and self important Parkerist approach to wine: if someone tells me its good then it must be good.
Vote now! Wine Person of the Decade [the Naughties] | Dr Vino's wine blog 2009
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The plaintive cry "Don't let the Government get its hands on my Medicare," might be apocryphal, but it highlights the vacuousness of a political movement that is built on deliberate denial by Americans of their own responsibility for the straits in which we find ourselves.
David Paul: The Problem Is Not Jon Stewart David Paul 2010
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As for Michelle Rhee, I heartily advise you distance yourself from her before the extent of her vacuousness becomes obvious.
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The plaintive cry "Don't let the Government get its hands on my Medicare," might be apocryphal, but it highlights the vacuousness of a political movement that is built on deliberate denial by Americans of their own responsibility for the straits in which we find ourselves.
David Paul: The Problem Is Not Jon Stewart David Paul 2010
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