(a.) Not indued with mind or intellectual powers; stupid; unthinking.
(a.) Unmindful; inattentive; heedless; careless.
Example Sentences:
(1) Tottenham MP David Lammy said the community "had the heart ripped out of it" by "mindless, mindless people", many of whom had come from outside Tottenham.
(2) When people get together sometimes they forget their individual responsibility and maybe when you go home and watch it on television you are less proud.” Coates agreed with Wenger that it is best to turn a deaf ear to those mindless enough to sing that sort of song.
(3) From that day video games – the youngest and therefore the most misunderstood and feared entertainment medium – have struggled to shrug off the perception that they are violent, often mindless, occasionally sexist and fundamentally unconstructive.
(4) "Not one person has given any positive to his tenure of management, just kept mindlessly claiming he needs time.
(5) "The media like to paint a picture of hooligans and thugs, mindless men on the rampage.
(6) The increasingly frequent murder of Nato trainers by the Afghans they are supposed to mentor has done as much to eradicate trust in the relationship between the Kabul government and its western backers as the sight of US marines videoed while urinating on the corpses of insurgents, or the mindless decision to burn Qur'ans at a US military base.
(7) To speak metaphorically, we can opt for either brainless or mindless psychiatry, as Szasz proposed.
(8) The architect of the RBCT called the new cull "mindless".
(9) "Banter", for me, is like a spitty wind, one that either breezes past gently, or batters me round the cheeks with its mindless force.
(10) Last week you were saying the violence was understandable given the offensive film and this week you are trying to claim it was mindless," he wrote.
(11) This article describes a detailed model of how such "mindless" processes might lead to intelligent choices of strategies in one common situation: that in which people need to choose between stating a retrieved answer and using a backup strategy.
(12) The critics have raved about Amour : to some it is a "beautifully calculated demise" or "old age that refuses to be swept under the carpet and mindlessly 'othered' "; to others it shows "Haneke's flair for the emotionally brutal" and is an "overlong unblinking meditation on life's last act".
(13) It was hypothesized that as overlearning leads to "mindlessness," the individual components of a task become relatively inaccessible to consciousness and therefore unavailable to serve as evidence of task competence.
(14) We are about to take this country backwards in droves through the mindless ideological bent of the Coalition .
(15) And on this we must agree: there is no speech that justifies mindless violence," he said.
(16) As a letter in the Guardian from the Labour MP Peter Hain two days later put it: "Wednesday night's events were not mindless thuggery but organised political violence.
(17) Alex Song’s mindless red card near the end of the first half certainly made their task an easier one, but Croatia put the setback of their opening defeat to Brazil behind them with clinical ease.
(18) Thus to see Timothy Spall in Mr Turner mindlessly attacking a badly painted oil sketch was a painful experience for those that love and study art, spoiling for me what otherwise was a beautifully shot and constructed film.
(19) "We are not on a mindless hunt for unique users," said Bailey.
(20) Hollywood blockbusters and TV dramas are saturated with mindless terrorists.
Vacuous
Definition:
(a.) Empty; unfilled; void; vacant.
Example Sentences:
(1) A different pattern was observed in the open cage test, where both neuroleptic groups showed significant increases in vacuous OMs during drug administration which rapidly became attenuated upon drug withdrawal.
(2) Vacuous chewing movements in rats may be an animal analogue of the human motor disorder, tardive dyskinesia.
(3) Buckman will also accuse the health secretary, Jeremy Hunt, of responding to growing problems in the NHS with "cheap soundbites and vacuous political point scoring", such as wrongly blaming GPs and out-of-hours services for rising attendances at A&E units.
(4) This criticism can be extended of course to other forms of online communities, such as Facebook, where contact-less friendships are reduced to pokes, LOLs, and vacuous innuendos.
(5) Previous studies have shown that the emergence of spontaneous dyskinetic behaviors, such as vacuous chewing movements, following several months of neuroleptic treatment in the rat, is correlated with depletion of nigral GABA.
(6) Vacuous jaw movements that resemble chewing were produced by dopamine depletion in the ventrolateral striatum, but not the anteroventromedial or dorsolateral striatum.
(7) And one might nod as one hears banal and vacuous philosophical themes such as "change begins with you" or "every little thing helps".
(8) A dose-related increase in vacuous chewing was induced by injections of pilocarpine in the ventrolateral but not the ventromedial striatum.
(9) The announcement was dismissed as window dressing by the shadow home office minister Lady Smith, and as "vacuous and cynical posturing" by Steven Woolfe, a Ukip immigration spokesman.
(10) Hedonistic, vacuous, self-important and delusional.
(11) The Guardian's Charlie Brooker created the character of Nathan Barley , a vacuous media playboy, back in 1999, around the same time the east London fanzine The Shoreditch Twat began published its first edition.
(12) The crest of mitochondria was blur, coalescent and vacuous.
(13) I suspect a lot of people will write Kim Kardashian’s Hollywood off as a vacuous game about a vacuous person, using a cynical business model that preys on stupid players who wouldn’t know a “proper game” if it snogged them on the pillion.
(14) In contrast, bilateral microinfusions of muscimol into the nigrocollicular target region, in the deep layers of superior colliculus, blocked elicitation of gnawing by intranigral muscimol, but completely spared elicitation of vacuous chewing movements by intranigral isoniazid.
(15) In an era when art has increasingly become a vacuous wealth statement or part of an investment portfolio, Banksy continues to be seen by many as a pomposity-pricking man of the people.
(16) The influence of stressful experiences on the development of vacuous chewing movements (VCM) was investigated in non-medicated rats.
(17) Intranigral infusion of GABA agonists causes stereotyped licking and gnawing in rats, while intranigral GABA antagonists produce vacuous chewing movements.
(18) The ECC report: "DECC's stated objectives for reforming the electricity market are uncontentious but vacuous.
(19) Almost as vacuous as Clegg's contribution to the leadership debates, you might think.
(20) The development of vacuous chewing movements (VCMs), and changes in glutamic acid decarboxylase (GAD) and choline acetyltransferase (ChAT) activities in extrapyramidal nuclei were examined in rats treated chronically with neuroleptics.