vacuitous

Lacking thought or intelligence; vacuous.

The half-opened mouth, and consequently the vacuitous expression of countenance, the thickness of breathing, which sometimes could be heard across the room, and the nasal speech, all plainly indicated the difficulty she laboured under.

Persons thus troubled are obliged at all times to keep their lips apart, or their mouth open, to enable them to breathe, and in time the features acquire a contracted and vacuitous expression, even in the most intelligent.

Lacking substance; trivial; meaningless.

He took Miss Lynes to supper; he outshone himself in vacuitous small-talk during the whole time that the meal lasted ; he held undisputed possession of her during that hour especially dear to flirtation, between the time when supper ended and the departure of the guests.

From his excellency, the President of this great Republic, down to the President of the Rural Debating Society, a patient and long-suffering people has been pelted, so to speak, by them with this too often vacuitous literature for lo, these many years.

Deficient; lacking.

The doing of an act which might not lawfully be done, is nugatory, ineffective and vacuitous.

In addition, ectomorphic or very thin, nervous people may be constitutionally yin vacuitous from birth.

Empty.

On the one hand there will be vacuitous chambers and on the other hand too much air.

The Sun, the moon, the planets and the stars are, undoubtedly, moulded after the same pattern of immense cosmic shells with vacuitous interiors.