vacuously

adv

1. 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.”

2. Because of being a vacuous truth.

   “The statement is vacuously true because P is false and P implies Q.”