vacuously
adverb
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adv
Etymology: Etymology tree English vacuous Middle English -ly English -ly English vacuously From vacuous + -ly.
- In a vacuous manner, lacking thought.
“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.”
- Because of being a vacuous truth.
“The statement is vacuously true because P is false and P implies Q.”