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By now, you would think that journalists should have tired of giving their vapid ideas yet another platform.
Here's How to Dig Out of This 'Stupid Sh*t' U.S. Foreign Policy|Leslie H. Gelb|August 13, 2014|DAILY BEAST
She is too vapid and immature (and untalented) to pull off something really seductive.
Miley Cyrus: The Nadir of American Civilization?|Tunku Varadarajan|August 28, 2013|DAILY BEAST
Grand language wrapped around a thin message produces only vapid blather.
Why Inaugural Speeches Fail|David Frum|January 21, 2013|DAILY BEAST
You pretty much can't get a better absurdist parody of politicians' vapid sure-is-nice-to-be-here patter than that.
Mitt's Sense of Humor, Ctd.|Justin Green|October 19, 2012|DAILY BEAST

This had, she noted correctly, transformed those hearings into “a vapid and hollow charade.”
Attack Kagan Already!|Paul Campos|June 29, 2010|DAILY BEAST
Still less did I think that he would take even the faintest interest in such a vapid creature.
Our Elizabeth|Florence A. Kilpatrick
The dear-bought knowledge of her youth enables her to read the vapid men and women around her.
The Little Lady of Lagunitas|Richard Henry Savage
How poor, how vapid, and how meagre is the effort to recall the wit that set the table in a roar!
Jack Hinton|Charles James Lever
On going back to the sacristy the Reverend Golightly congratulated him with a simper and a vapid smile.
The Christian|Hall Caine
Scarcely more did they interest her than her vapid adventure with Ahab Wright.
In the Heart of a Fool|William Allen White

British Dictionary definitions for vapid

vapid

/ (ˈvæpɪd) /

adjective

bereft of strength, sharpness, flavour, etc; flat

boring or dull; lifelessvapid talk

Derived forms of vapid

vapidity, nounvapidly, adverbvapidness, noun

Word Origin for vapid

C17: from Latin vapidus; related to vappa tasteless or flat wine, and perhaps to vapor warmth

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