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

The band — Robert Plant, Jimmy Page, John Paul Jones and John “Bonzo” Bonham — epitomized either the dreamy idealism of the ’60s or the bloated vapidity of the ’70s.

From Washington Post • Dec. 1, 2021

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