empty-suited
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.92 in modern English
19
Scrabble Score
11
Letters
5
Syllables
9
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "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."
- "traits not high on her list when she'd limited herself to all those glamorous but empty-suited men."
- "neither the unclothed Bride nor the empty-suited "suitors" ever cross panes to connect or to evolve apart from their perpetual motion machines."
- "So the empty-suited politician who has done nothing but stand in the way of American success in Iraq, who, along with the rest of his sorry-ass Party, has advocated American retreat and defeat at every turn, is somehow "the beneficiary" of the hard-won military and political victory his opponents achieved in the face of withering criticism, calumny, and lies from every quarter, including Obama himself."
- "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."
- "Instead he came across as an empty-suited, bloodless chief executive with a more expensive haircut than John Edwards."
Etymology
From empty suit + -ed.
Word Breakdown
Usage
Inflected Forms
more empty-suited (comparative)
most empty-suited (superlative)