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vapid
1650s, "flat, insipid" (of drinks), from L.
vapidus
"flat, insipid," lit. "that has exhaled its vapor," related to
vappa
"stale wine," and probably to
vapor
"vapor." Applied from 1758 to talk and writing deemed dull and lifeless.
