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vapid

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lacking significance or liveliness or spirit or zest
[Source: WordNet]

Greg Mankiw, a very good economist who has a habit of making vapid comments when he's not subject to peer review, keeps up the habit in today's Economic View column...  Link

Jessica, incidentally, is pretty, but extremely vapid. Are real women this dull?  Link

The program certainly depicts the Jersey Shore as a culturally vapid place and doesn't make it appealing to anyone outside the demographic... Link

Contemporary confusions on this front derive from several sources. One is a vapid idea of peace as the absence of conflict, a condition that (as the president rightly recognized) will never obtain in this world... Link

Rachel had obviously done a substantial amount of work prior to the interview, having even read the guest's books and being able to refer to various parts of them quickly; doing real work and real reading is far too burdensome for most of our coddled, vapid media stars. Link

Her actions portray her as a person devoid of integrity, objectivity and humility. The world would be a better place if she was treated as the vapid windbag she is. Link

He doesn't really make a point about anything, he wanders around for a bit in search of a point that never comes. The whole thing is completely vapid and substanceless. Link

Here’s a perfect video of Rick Perry that shows just how vapid the man is. Link

And I hate you most of all for making me defend Piers Morgan, who is one of the most annoying and vapid people on the planet. Link

…the thing that I noticed when reading his response to the State of the Union (I read it rather than watched it) is how completely vapid it was. It was just a list of tired platitudes… Link

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