词汇 | vapid |
释义 | vapid adjective formaluk /ˈvæp.ɪd/ us /ˈvæp.ɪd/ showing no intelligence or imagination: 愚蠢的;无生气的;单调的;乏味的 a vapid reality TV show枯燥乏味的电视真人秀 He's attractive, but vapid.他长得好看,但是太蠢。 Stupid and silly absurd absurdity absurdly adolescent against your better judgmentidiom dopey dopily dorky dottiness dotty imprudently in his/her/their wisdomidiom in someone's infinite wisdomidiom inadvisable injudicious subnormal uncritical uncritically undiscriminating unintelligent Related wordvapidity Examples of vapidvapid They are wonderfully, shamelessly vapid; closures which declare their own narrative and aesthetic short-comings. Has its popularity caused it to become so vapid as to be ripe for misuse? When a hospital board chooses a vapid slogan to market organizational values, this sort of weak consensus often follows. Meantime in the west, political scientists diagnose citizen disaffection but have no remedy to offer outside (anti-political) neoliberalism or the (wholly vapid) 'third way'. I find vapid the complexity that denies the richness of human experience and the tradition of social institutions, or an architecture that confuses complexity-in-form for complexity-inexperience. Were one ultra-attentive one might find this sing-songiness, and what has been dubbed a 'soap-opera' level of character insight and dramatic evolution, yields some slightly vapid results. It is as thin in substance—it is three and half pages if one excludes the appendices—as it is vapid in fact and in argument. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 It is certainly vapid and vague in many spheres, and it certainly does not emphasise sufficiently home defence. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 The idea that declarations are some vapid froth on the procedures of courts and tribunals went out a long time ago. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Some say that judges have shown great ingenuity, or perhaps resourcefulness is a more vapid word to use. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Why was he dull, vapid, and profitless to-night? From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 All were cast in the same pattern, vapid, uncertain, gripless glimpses of the obvious, with no real policy, no real grip in them. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Even when he gives a straight answer, it is so vapid and foggy that much analysis is required to make sense of it. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 It seems a rather vapid arid general document. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 This is not vapid idealism but hard, stern realism, the need for which was suddenly brought home to every thinking man and woman who bore the anxieties of last week. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |
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