Sample Sentences for
vapid
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    I'd wait for Nick to leave for The Bar, or to go meet his mistress, the ever-texting, gum-chewing, vapid mistress with her acrylic nails and the sweatpants with logos across the butt (she isn't like this, exactly, but she might as well be),  (source)
    vapid = dull (lacking anything interesting or stimulating)
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    A sort of vapid eagerness flitted across Winston's face at the mention of Big Brother.  (source)
    vapid = lacking intelligence
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    with Sophie I used to talk French, and sometimes I asked her questions about her native country; but she was not of a descriptive or narrative turn, and generally gave such vapid and confused answers as were calculated rather to check than encourage inquiry.  (source)
    vapid = lacking interest and intelligence
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    The witch was wearing a vapid smile like a beauty contestant, and from what Harry knew of goblins and centaurs, they were most unlikely to be caught staring so soppily at humans of any description.  (source)
    vapid = lacking interest and intelligence
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    "I see you've kested me," he said, smiling rather vapidly.†  (source)
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    He was particularly incensed by the vapidness of the established Danish Lutheran Church.†  (source)
    standard suffix: The suffix "-ness" converts an adjective to a noun that means the quality of. This is the same pattern you see in words like darkness, kindness, and coolness.
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    When we had been there half an hour or so, the case in progress—if I may use a phrase so ridiculous in such a connexion—seemed to die out of its own vapidity, without coming, or being by anybody expected to come, to any result.†  (source)
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    He'd jumped at his first opportunity to join the fraternity of vapid asshats.  (source)
    vapid = dull (lacking anything interesting or stimulating)
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    She stopped again, blinking vapidly at the day.†  (source)
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    The vapidness of such drama as the pseudo-operatic plays contain lies in the fact that in them animal passion, sentimentally diluted, is shewn in conflict, not with real circumstances, but with a set of conventions and assumptions half of which do not exist off the stage, whilst the other half can either be evaded by a pretence of compliance or defied with complete impunity by any reasonably strong-minded person.†  (source)
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    So you don't think she's some vapid, soulless Barbie doll?  (source)
    vapid = lacking interest and intelligence
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    The man looked vapidly across the street, frowning a little.†  (source)
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    Ronald Reagan is a vapid young drunk.†  (source)
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