vapidity
Example Sentences
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She is psychologically complex, straddling both beautiful sincerity and utter vapidity.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 26, 2025
"Enraged at my vapidity, I forced myself to sit down and read several articles in the latest issue of the New York Review of Books before I fixed my nighttime drink."
From Washington Post ● Feb. 3, 2022
One of Davidson’s recurring “S.N.L.” sketches has him playing Chad, a vaping, all-purpose empty vessel whose vapidity only heightens people’s lust for him.
From New York Times ● Jun. 11, 2020
Critics hate selfie culture—and the broader social media landscape that enables it— in part because it rewards vapidity, inauthenticity, and self-absorption, because most selfies are self-serving advertisements for their participants’ purportedly wonderful lives.
From Slate ● Dec. 31, 2019
There was a certain vapidity to her reassurance, an automatic way of expressing goodwill, which did not require any concrete efforts on her part to help him.
From "Americanah" by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
