Definition of "emptily" [emptily]

• In an empty manner (adverb)

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• "Wind Cat was cursing, striking emptily at the air around him."
• "On this night, close-hauled, her big mainsail preposterously flattened down, her luffs pulsing emptily on the lift of each smooth swell, she was sliding an easy four knots through the water on the veriest whisper of a breeze."
• "If Obama talks about it too — and lays out a concrete deficit-reduction plan — Republican legislators are going to look like emptily-posturing obstacles."