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vapidness

/vap-id/US // ˈvæp ɪd //UK // (ˈvæpɪd) //

虚无缥缈,软弱无力,空虚,虚浮

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Definitions

adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : without liveliness or spirit; dull or tedious: a vapid party;vapid conversation.
    • : lacking or having lost life, sharpness, or flavor; insipid; flat: vapid tea.

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Examples

  • The film paints most of these characters as vultures of the art world, often using the high-flown linguistic semantics of academia and artistic discourse to obfuscate the vapid nature of the work they’re doing.

  • To risk a truly vapid cliché, California contains multitudes.

  • Because instead of equality, health care, peace, safety and support, Mother’s Day had become an occasion for vapid expressions of “love and reverence,” increasingly characterized by flowers, brunch and store-bought cards.

  • By now, you would think that journalists should have tired of giving their vapid ideas yet another platform.

  • She is too vapid and immature (and untalented) to pull off something really seductive.

  • Was it tough to make these inherently vapid, Valley Girl-ish characters be compelling onscreen?

  • Grand language wrapped around a thin message produces only vapid blather.

  • You pretty much can't get a better absurdist parody of politicians' vapid sure-is-nice-to-be-here patter than that.

  • The water, too, had become very mawkish and vapid, and there was scarcely any tea left; what remained was used up that evening.

  • He picked up his "Enquirer," but the political news was stale and vapid: the "Whig" was tried with no better success.

  • There is no gilt, no mock modesty in his style; there is to vapid sentimentalism in the ideas he expounds.

  • I would not barter one hour of such thoughts—chimerical though they may be—for ten years of this vapid, surface life.

  • For the first time he did not admire it very much; for the first time he found it a trifle soulless and vapid.