vapid
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And the ads are usually vapid and empty.
From Salon • May 6, 2026
"Someone can be vapid, have no depth and be on reality TV, but that doesn't mean that's true for every contestant," she adds.
From BBC • Feb. 28, 2026
Ed, one of the sons of the family -- played by Turner -- serves as a narrator of sorts and sums up the rest of his family as "lazy, mediocre, vapid egotists".
From Barron's • Feb. 14, 2026
If this vapid, airless, mindless time-waster had subversive designs of being a satire about the first lady of the United States, there’s not much it would have changed.
From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 2, 2026
And when you’re not looking, she stares at you with that vapid, toothy smile.
From "The Help" by Kathryn Stockett
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