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Definition of empty suit in English: empty suitnoun US informal An important or wealthy man regarded as lacking substance, personality, or ability. they're a bunch of Ivy League empty suits Example sentencesExamples - He won, but I always thought he was a gutless empty suit.
- "I don't think anybody would accuse him of being an empty suit," Mr. Wilson said.
- In many ways, he is the opposite of an empty suit - he's stuffed so full of facts and work product, he can hardly move.
- I wasn't born into the corporation like some of the empty suits.
- O'Neill has described him as an "empty suit."
- The man is an empty suit.
- There are nine empty suits to divide and conquer.
- It's extremely irritating to have to watch this empty suit treat his guests like children and then pat himself on the back as if he's accomplished something.
- I'm hopeful that the electorate is a bit more serious than last time and will see the contrast between a man of real substance and an empty suit.
- I don't believe he is an empty suit.
- Don't tell me that, as a nation, we can't distinguish courage from stubbornness, philosophy from platitudes, and an empty suit from a full one.
- I used to think he was an empty suit, but if you watched the debates of the Republicans, they were terrific.
- Maybe, now people will see what an empty suit this guy is.
- An empty suit at MTV would be found out pretty quickly given that culture.
- Hidden beneath enormous pinstripes, he seemed like the sartorial embodiment of a political hack - literally, an empty suit.
- What a pathetic fraud of an empty suit John is.
- He wasn't pleased that I called him an empty suit and wrote back to tell me that he would continue to call out these people for their bad manners.
- We've had empty promises from empty suits.
- Maybe the empty suits mismanaging the Corporation will even be fired.
- She's honest, hard working and she's not one of the empty suits in Washington.
Definition of empty suit in US English: empty suitnoun US informal A prominent person regarded as lacking substance, personality, or ability. they're a bunch of Ivy League empty suits Example sentencesExamples - I'm hopeful that the electorate is a bit more serious than last time and will see the contrast between a man of real substance and an empty suit.
- O'Neill has described him as an "empty suit."
- What a pathetic fraud of an empty suit John is.
- Don't tell me that, as a nation, we can't distinguish courage from stubbornness, philosophy from platitudes, and an empty suit from a full one.
- I used to think he was an empty suit, but if you watched the debates of the Republicans, they were terrific.
- She's honest, hard working and she's not one of the empty suits in Washington.
- He won, but I always thought he was a gutless empty suit.
- There are nine empty suits to divide and conquer.
- Maybe the empty suits mismanaging the Corporation will even be fired.
- In many ways, he is the opposite of an empty suit - he's stuffed so full of facts and work product, he can hardly move.
- It's extremely irritating to have to watch this empty suit treat his guests like children and then pat himself on the back as if he's accomplished something.
- Hidden beneath enormous pinstripes, he seemed like the sartorial embodiment of a political hack - literally, an empty suit.
- The man is an empty suit.
- I don't believe he is an empty suit.
- "I don't think anybody would accuse him of being an empty suit," Mr. Wilson said.
- We've had empty promises from empty suits.
- Maybe, now people will see what an empty suit this guy is.
- He wasn't pleased that I called him an empty suit and wrote back to tell me that he would continue to call out these people for their bad manners.
- An empty suit at MTV would be found out pretty quickly given that culture.
- I wasn't born into the corporation like some of the empty suits.
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