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Discover LudwigThe phrase "vacant smile" is definitely correct and usable in written English
It is a common phrase used to describe a smile that appears empty or lacking in genuine emotion. It can be used in various contexts, but is often used to describe someone who is smiling for the sake of being polite or socially expected, rather than genuinely feeling happy or interested. Example sentence: Despite the sad news, she plastered a vacant smile on her face and continued with the party.
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Lockwood's opposite number was Calvert, a pretty blond actress whose wide eyes and vacant smile made her Gainsborough's perfect good girl.
She stole a look around, gave Steve a vacant smile, picked up my drink, and downed it in a single gulp.
"How can a parent feel in front of a picture when you can see the blue, mistreated face of your own child?" Shabiu stops, then sighs, giving a vacant smile.
But what really inspired Haney was what she saw as "Barbie flashing her happy little vacant smile at the most inappropriate times".
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"You think it's enough?" Meraj kept smiling but it was a vacant, expectant smile.
There's the uncertain smile and vacant gaze of someone who doesn't quite know how he found himself here, but suspects that they must, nonetheless, persist in attempts at ingratiation.
I couldn't recall when her hair might have been brown and combed, her pants not fat with diapers, her smile less vacant.
AT Nina America on West 27th Street, identical female mannequin heads with large vacant eyes and saucy smiles line the office shelves, an army of faces topped with wigs, from flaxen curls to purplish pageboys.
With his pretty-boy face and talent-free acting, Mr. Walker, who became a star with "The Fast and the Furious," resembles a throwback to the days when imitation Tab Hunters were tapped for potential stardom simply on the basis of their dimpled smiles and vacant, sparkly eyes.
Because there are people walking around in prayer poses, blessing us with their fake smiles and glazed, vacant stares of idiocy.
As Allen can't help reminding us, with a mischievous smile, "Chicago has 77,000 vacant lots".
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