Vacuously

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!" […]

He scowled vacuously, keeping at bay a horrible enlightenment on the mechanism of effort, which must drive into being a resistance equal to itself.

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