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adjective

vapid

lacking taste or flavor or tang

In a sentence

Six example sentences with vapid, each labelled with its topic.

  • Supermarket tomatoes in February are vapid, and no amount of salt or olive oil will rescue them.

    Cooking

  • The hotel served a vapid broth that seemed to have met a chicken only very briefly.

    Travel

  • The protein shake was chalky and vapid, so she started blending frozen berries into it before training.

    Fitness

  • Patients on the new drug complained that food tasted vapid, and several lost weight before the dose was adjusted.

    Medicine

  • The chain's coffee was so vapid that a rival opened across the street and took half the morning trade within a month.

    Business

  • Sailors on long voyages lived on vapid ship's biscuit, and a single lime at port tasted like a feast.

    History

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