Words at Play : Top 10 Sophisticated Insults
Definition:
having or showing a lack of intelligence or serious thought : lacking meaning, importance, or substance
Example:
"Through booms and busts, profits and losses, the vacuous jargon and happy euphemisms of the business world endure." – David Gillen and Will Storey, New York Times, October 24, 2013
About the Word:
Although the word's Latin ancestor, vacuus, means "empty," it has enriched our language: it gave us not only vacuous but also vacuum and evacuate.
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