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insipidness

/in-sip-id/US // ɪnˈsɪp ɪd //UK // (ɪnˈsɪpɪd) //

平淡无奇,平淡,平淡无味,平淡如水

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Definitions

adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : without distinctive, interesting, or stimulating qualities; vapid: an insipid personality.
    • : without sufficient taste to be pleasing, as food or drink; bland: a rather insipid soup.

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Examples

  • If you are a sports fan, as I am, and also a sentient human being, as at least a few of my readers are, you are aware of the stunningly insipid nature of sports interviews.

  • When I saw it listed on the contents page, I thought, “Why would he write about a song that insipid?”

  • This time, long-suffering conservatives endured nothing embarrassing or bizarre, insipid, or outlandish.

  • Other foods that came canned, including more limp, insipid vegetables, overly syrupy fruits, and sloppy stews were equally gross.

  • The insipid GOP chairman, Michael Steele, blamed Scozzafava for endorsing the Democratic candidate, Bill Owen.

  • Dispense with all the insipid government meddling and let the market decide what happens to Wall Street from this point forward.

  • She was a plump-faced, insipid child, with fair hair and pale blue eyes, stolid and bovine in their expressionlessness.

  • Scarcely anything has been written against the French Academy, except frivolous and insipid pleasantries.

  • Such a description would not now be tolerated in one of our most insipid novels.

  • A man who has schemed for some time can no longer do without it; all other ways of living are to him dull and insipid.

  • Those of his works that have come under our notice are for the most part tame and insipid.