vacuously
- r in a vacuous manner
- Suddenly the man stopped, in midsentence, and his face lost animation; his mouth froze, still open, and his eyes became vacuously fixed.
- Only belatedly have museums realized that the history of modern art would seem vacuously cold without Chagall's tender, sometimes desperate exhortation to love life joyfully.
- A "divine white light" kept trying to make a decent human being out of him, but Eustace preferred to float vacuously throughout eternity rather than give in to it.