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vacuous
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vacuous
Logic maths (of an operator or expression) having no import; idle: in (x) (John is tall) the quantifier (x) is vacuous


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I want to apologise for degrading myself and helping to drag our society down into the shallows of celebrity vacuousness.
DEAR LIVERPOOL ECHO READERS... A public apology to ECHO readers ... ... by Liverpool Echo (Liverpool, England)
Sheen's eyes at once shine with a schmoozer's surface charm but also convey a hollow sadness in Frost as he faces up to his own vacuousness.
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An exception is Jeffrey Sconce's essay "A Vacancy at the Paris Hilton," which makes the association between female celebrity and the vacuousness of modern culture utterly explicit--although with all of the pernicious value judgments this implies.
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