英:['væpɪdnəs]
美:['væpɪdnəs]
英:['væpɪdnəs]
美:['væpɪdnəs]
n.
乏味
无滋味
无趣味
无生气
borrowed from Latin vapidus "(of wine) having lost freshness, flat"; akin to Latin vappa "wine that has gone flat" and perhaps to vapor "exhalation, steam" — more at vapor >entry 1
The first known use of vapid was circa 1656
vapornoun
fine particles of matter (as fog or smoke) floating in the air and clouding it
a substance in the gaseous state
vapidadjective
being dull or uninteresting
vapidadjective
being dull or uninteresting
1 In a secular age, symbolic rituals such as lighting the Olympic torch inevitably risk seeming a little vapid.
2 "I'd rather sit the comedy out than go home and fret over its vapidness."
3 But if your family wants to watch some reality TV and you want to avoid the catty backstabbing and vapidness, try Terrace House, the nicest reality show on television.
4 McKnight has found that certain stereotypes attached to the Valley girl accent — the vapidness, superficiality and self-importance — are projected onto her when she uses the voice.
5 There have been recent rumblings about the cast shake-up following a vapid season 15, which featured Burrus along with Marlo Hampton, Drew Sidora, Shereé Whitfield, Kenya Moore, and Sanya Richards-Ross.
6 Paris Hilton was lithe and blonde and as tacky as a Palm Beach retiree — a woman whose primary contribution to society was encouraging vapidness.
7 Well, yes, but so is the vapidness that Lord has made his trademark over the months.
8 The job conjures for many all the tropes of narcissism, vapidness, superficiality.
9 He showed us the vapidness, the ridiculousness, the tastelessness, of those apings of the French stage, which itself was but an imitation of the Greek.
10 Even as she spoke, Olive realized the vapidness of her words and was ashamed of them.
11 Opposed to calvinistic vapidness this book wishes to bestow on the poor frozen soul the sweet fire of the old faith.
12 “He simultaneously kind of shuns and criticizes the vapidness and narcissisms of society, and at the same time so badly wants to be a part of it,” he said.
13 No one in these elite and vapid circles cares much about either the offender or the offense.
14 Just look to the celebrity-gossip ecosystem, which is as robust as ever despite various reckonings—take Britney Spears’s saga—demonstrating it as immoral, bigoted, vapid, and fake.
15 And there’s also Wow Platinum (Aubrey Plaza), a vapid Wall Street reporter who used to be Caesar’s mistress, is now Hamilton’s wife, and will destroy her former lover by any means necessary.
16 Kendrick fans find Drake too vapid, Drake fans find Kendrick too dense.
17 When once a person has smoked the vapidness of the routine of society, he must have either some self-interest or the love of some sort of distinction to keep him in good humour with it.
18 This cultural depreciation has led to praise for vapid movies such as Barbie, Dune, and Oppenheimer.
19 Unlike Greta Gerwig’s toy-feminism, a marketing coup that sold misandry and ineptitude alongside vapid white privilege — all the more biased in its supporting cast of diversity tokens.
20 Even the Latin of the earlier Humanitarians reminds us of the subtle vapidness of monkish language, almost as much as of the artistic phrases of ancient rhetoricians.