“Vapid” (VAP-id) – from the Latin for “spiritless” – means lacking liveliness, taste, or zest.
Example (as used by Anatole Broyard in The New York Times): “One year he was writing vapid and sentimental mediocrities, and the next he was turning out one of the best poems of our century.”
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