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VACUOUSLY
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Dictionary entry overview: What does vacuously mean?
• VACUOUSLY (adverb)
The adverb VACUOUSLY has 1 sense:
1. in a vacuous manner
Familiarity information: VACUOUSLY used as an adverb is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
In a vacuous manner
Pertainym:
vacuous (devoid of significance or force)
Context examples
As a preliminary to another journey to his bunk, he hooked Wolf Larsen’s buttonhole with a greasy forefinger and vacuously proclaimed and reiterated, I got money, I got money, I tell yer, an’ I’m a gentleman’s son.
(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)
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