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empty formality

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empty formality
Meaningless rituals or manners; conventions that serve no practical purpose
dead letter
Regulations or rules that still exist on paper but are no longer observed or enforced
empty words
(literary) Writing or speech that is hollow and lacks substance

Frequency

Written text
0.043 per million

Cross-References

Same as

Sources

Frequency data
BCC Corpus (BLCU)