vapid
The boy bands are groomed into stereotypes which conceal their sheer vapidity.
They are aware of the ugliness and vapidity of the contemporary urban environment.
Recent statistics show that the pop audience is growing tired of vapidity.

SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

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

Examples of vapidity

vapidity
The result has been a circus, a must-watch reality show, a festival of vapidity.
From Politico
But their velocity, vapidity, and sheer ugliness reflect his character, his emptiness, and, most of all, the shape of the election campaign to come.
From The New Yorker
They weren't fully-fleshed characters, so much as reminders of the social order, the high school hierarchy ever-emphasized by their vapidity, promiscuity, cruelty and/or general gorgeousness.
From Huffington Post
Thus, the physical production of creaky voice comes to be heard in relation to ideas of vapidity, unassertiveness, and excess.
They are "whole teams" beside the "one-horse" vapidities which fail to bear our burdens.
From Project Gutenberg
He felt unaccountably weary, inexpressibly depressed; he could almost taste the vapidity of further existence.
From Project Gutenberg
It was an imposing array of sounds; a circulation of ciphers; a marshaling of tappas; a getting together of grimaces and furbelows; a masquerade of vapidities.
From Project Gutenberg
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