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empty-suited

empty-suited adjective: of or characteristic of an empty suit.

Adjective

empty-suited (comparative more empty-suited, superlative most empty-suited)

  1. (derogatory, slang) Of or characteristic of an empty suit.
    • Within this world, some of the characters are stock types, beginning with Bruce Davison's guileful opportunist and Kevin O'Rourke's empty-suited gladhander.1987, New York Times & Arno Press (publisher), The New York Times Theater Reviews, page 156
    • traits not high on her list when she'd limited herself to all those glamorous but empty-suited men.1991, Judy Kuriansky, How to Love a Nice Guy, page 69

Examples of empty-suited in a sentence

  • neither the unclothed Bride nor the empty-suited "suitors" ever cross panes to connect or to evolve apart from their perpetual motion machines.2000, Elizabeth Haas, Performing Barbara Stanwyck, 1922-1964, page 102:
  • This, dear readers, is the fundamental difference between an empty-suited celebrity and a nuts-and-bolts executive: flim-flam artistry vs. substance and real results.2009 August 12, jose el fontanero, alt.politics.bush (Usenet):
  • Instead he came across as an empty-suited, bloodless chief executive with a more expensive haircut than John Edwards.2019, Charles Reilly, Man of Letters, The Very Best of Reilly’s Letters Published in the L.A. Times:

Forms of empty-suited

comparativemore empty-suited
superlativemost empty-suited

Origin of empty-suited

From empty suit + -ed.

Questions about empty-suited

What does empty-suited mean?
Empty-suited means of or characteristic of an empty suit.
How do you use empty-suited in a sentence?
neither the unclothed Bride nor the empty-suited "suitors" ever cross panes to connect or to evolve apart from their perpetual motion machines.
What part of speech is empty-suited?
Empty-suited is an adjective.

Words near empty-suited in the dictionary

  1. empty-nester
  2. empty-net goal
  3. empty-net goals
  4. empty-netter
  5. empty-netters
  6. empty-suited
  7. empty-vee
  8. Emptyhad
  9. emptyhanded
  10. emptyhandedly
  11. emptyhandedness

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