vacuousness

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If the CBC continues this vacuousness, then I might just watch the Americans instead!

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  1. The state of being vacuous, in either sense; vacuity.

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  • He was still undistinguished, with thinning sandy hair, gray eyes that were mild to the point of vacuousness, and a wispy mustache that turned down, as if in disappointment at being the best he could grow. —  Muller, Marcia - [14] Wolf in the shadows
  • Suffice to say that judging the Friday-night drinking habits of the populous Chinese by the impact they will have on a responsible, sparsely populated Scandinavian country just about sums up the scientific vacuousness, scaremongering and fetishism about everything being finite that run through the veins of the modern Malthusian lobby.
  • Just another example of the train-wreck of stupidity and vacuousness that is the McCain campaign: —  The Ostroy Report
  • This incurious woman will take her intellectual vacuousness on a stage with Joe Biden this evening. —  Wayne Besen - Daily Commentary
  • If the CBC continues this vacuousness, then I might just watch the Americans instead! —  The Stormy Days of March
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