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as in bland
lacking in taste or flavor
an apple pie with a mushy, insipid filling that strongly resembled soggy cardboard
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as in boring
lacking in qualities that make for spirit and character
an insipid and somewhat boring movie about teenagers in love
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Recent Examples of insipid
Performances range from bad to worse (Jude Law as Captain Hook is permanently running on fumes), Neverland is a dreary landscape of muted greens and browns, and the story becomes an insipid take on an adventurous classic.
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Barry Levitt, TIME, 21 Mar. 2025
The framing, blocking, and overall visual grammar have a condescending air, as if directors have surrendered to some insipid idea of who their audience is.
—Angelica Jade Bastién, Vulture, 14 Mar. 2025
Sometimes the video was insipid, but that hardly mattered.
—David Rowell, TIME, 1 Nov. 2024
Final flourishes offer confusion: Kora confronts a giant Kali statue (Hindu myth replicating the insipid Issa ideal).
—Armond White, National Review, 9 Aug. 2024
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Barry Levitt, TIME, 21 Mar. 2025
The framing, blocking, and overall visual grammar have a condescending air, as if directors have surrendered to some insipid idea of who their audience is.
—Angelica Jade Bastién, Vulture, 14 Mar. 2025
Sometimes the video was insipid, but that hardly mattered.
—David Rowell, TIME, 1 Nov. 2024
Final flourishes offer confusion: Kora confronts a giant Kali statue (Hindu myth replicating the insipid Issa ideal).
—Armond White, National Review, 9 Aug. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for insipid
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Is paradise a bland suburbia with a quaint downtown selling specialty ice cream to be eaten under a nearby gazebo?—
Ben Travers,
IndieWire,
28 Jan. 2025
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The tone is all over the place, whipping back and forth between end-of-the-world seriousness and bland comedy.—
Ars Technica,
Ars Technica,
28 Jan. 2025
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Camilla told Newsweek that her husband, Linford, 32, works as a tunnel boring machine operator in London.—
Arick Wierson,
MSNBC Newsweek,
16 Apr. 2025
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Take it from this guy, who bought the beautiful Starfield limited-edition Xbox controller, headset, and console wrap for over $200, only to play the game and dump it after 20 boring hours.—
Matt Gardner,
Forbes.com,
16 Apr. 2025
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The water pressure then causes the vehicle to rise and slide on a thin layer of water between the tires and the road, making the driver lose control.—
STAR-TELEGRAM WEATHER BOT,
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
20 Apr. 2025
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Ibrahim had black hair and looked thin from malnutrition.—
Clayton Dalton,
New Yorker,
18 Apr. 2025
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As the handful of creature types repeat, the battles become banal.—
Harold Goldberg,
New York Times,
8 Apr. 2025
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And their replacement represents an increasingly dismal view of the city’s future — dull, uninspired and thoughtlessly banal.—
Edward Keegan,
Chicago Tribune,
6 Apr. 2025
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For instance, the lethal death cap mushroom contains a toxin that is virtually tasteless.—
Gordon G. Chang,
MSNBC Newsweek,
8 Apr. 2025
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Rob Long - November 7, 2024 11:45 pm Magazine Forbear the tasteless Rob Long - October 25, 2024 4:45 am Magazine Consider the Frito Rob Long - October 18, 2024 4:20 am Magazine The joys of in-person shopping Rob Long - October 11, 2024 5:30 am 123...—
Rob Long,
The Washington Examiner,
20 Mar. 2025
Adjective
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The additional compounds in matcha dull this effect.—
Helen Carefoot,
Verywell Health,
11 Apr. 2025
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For the rest of us, a real musical comedy is a cause for celebration; most are either too tuneless to be musicals or too dull to be comedies.—
Jesse Green,
New York Times,
11 Apr. 2025
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Ultimately, many on the internet have identified this week as a particularly tiring one for Black K-pop fans.—
Jennifer Zhan,
Vulture,
6 Apr. 2025
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Of course, going from shows to pickleball classes to after-hours jam sessions at B.B. King’s Blues Club can be tiring.—
DeMarco Williams,
Forbes.com,
28 Mar. 2025
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“Insipid.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/insipid. Accessed 22 Apr. 2025.
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