vapid
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We get the sense that her old work had impact; her new stuff is vapid and tacky.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 30, 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
After returning to France, she moved past society gossip and vapid crooks like Weidmann to write notable profiles of Philippe Pétain and Charles de Gaulle.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 19, 2026
The white batting is fluffed out, exposed, the whole effect of him vapid and dislodged.
From "Native Speaker" by Chang-rae Lee
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