Empty
Mean
Mean adjective - Being about midway between extremes of amount or size.
Common collocations
Both words in one sentence
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Note that empty eyes can also merely mean that the artist was too lazy.
Source: Empty Eyes - It did mean they have an excuse to beat someone up, empty their refrigerator and get praised for not killing/raping anyone.
Source: Spy Speak - When Jessica confronts him about it, he gives her a philosophical spiel about the body being just an empty husk that does not mean anything to him.
Source: Incriminating Indifference
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