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  • But by the end of August our repertoire was vapid from countless reproductions, and it was then that Dill gave us the idea of making Boo Radley come out.  (source)
    vapid = uninteresting
  • He'd jumped at his first opportunity to join the fraternity of vapid asshats.  (source)
    vapid = dull (lacking anything interesting or stimulating)
  • 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)
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  • So you don't think she's some vapid, soulless Barbie doll?  (source)
    vapid = lacking interest and intelligence
  • "I see you've kested me," he said, smiling rather vapidly.†  (source)
  • 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.
  • 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)
  • A sort of vapid eagerness flitted across Winston's face at the mention of Big Brother.  (source)
    vapid = lacking intelligence
  • She stopped again, blinking vapidly at the day.†  (source)
  • 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)
  • 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
  • The man looked vapidly across the street, frowning a little.†  (source)
  • And when you're not looking, she stares at you with that vapid, toothy smile.†  (source)
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