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

The imagery often came from lifestyle magazines, aerial photography, and also family albums, and their cold, distanced style held up a mirror to the new Federal Republic’s consumerist vapidity and Nazi inheritance.

From New York Times • Mar. 5, 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