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adjective

Empty, without content; lacking in intelligence or ideas; without purpose, idle.

Television was not invented to make human beings vacuous, but is an emanation of their vacuity.

—Malcolm Muggeridge “I Like Dwight” Tread Softly for You Tread on My Jokes (1966)

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