Vacuously

adv

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Definitions

Adverb
  1. 1
    In a vacuous manner, lacking thought.

    "Here, in distress that was consternation, and in fear that was panic, excitedly bobbed up and down a cowboy in bearskin chaps, vacuously repeating the exclamation, "Oh God! Oh God!" […]"

  2. 2
    Because of being a vacuous truth.

    "The statement is vacuously true because P is false and P implies Q."

Adverb
  1. 1
    in a vacuous manner wordnet

Example

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"Here, in distress that was consternation, and in fear that was panic, excitedly bobbed up and down a cowboy in bearskin chaps, vacuously repeating the exclamation, "Oh God! Oh God!" […]"

Etymology

From vacuous + -ly.

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vacuous truth

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