The witch was wearing a vapid smile like a beauty contestant, and from what Harry knew of goblins and centaurs, they were most unlikely to be caught staring this soppily at humans of any description.
J. K. Rowling
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
And what Ammu knew (or thought she knew) smelled of the vapid, vinegary fumes that rose from the cement vats—of Paradise Pickles.
Arundhati Roy
The god of small things
To the right of the bier knelt the Tyrells: the Lord of Highgarden, his hideous mother and vapid wife, his son Garlan and his daughter Margaery.
George R. R. Martin
A Feast for Crows
Your eyes are as vapid as the glass eyes of your stuffed fox.
James Joyce
Ulysses
Hence the wobbling of my will, and endless, vapid complainings.
T. E. Lawrence
Seven Pillars of Wisdom
Its shoe-button eyes seemed to reflect a black, vapid horror, as if it had seen all the secrets of darkness during its long stay in the sandbox.
Stephen King
'Salem's Lot
What preposterous madness to float in thin air two miles high on an inch or two of metal, sustained from death by the meager skill and intelligence of two vapid strangers, a beardless kid named Huple and a nervous nut like Dobbs, who really did go nuts right there in the plane, running amuck over the target without leaving his copilot’s seat and grabbing the controls from Huple to plunge them all down into that chilling dive that tore Yossarian’s headset loose and brought them right back inside the dense flak from which they had almost escaped.
Heller, Joseph
Catch-22