All 3 Uses of
insipid
in
Candide
- Candide was very pleased with an actress who played Queen Elizabeth in a somewhat insipid tragedy
Chpt 22 *insipid = insignificant, feeble, or lacking flavor
- The supper passed at first like most Parisian suppers, in silence, followed by a noise of words which could not be distinguished, then with pleasantries of which most were insipid, with false news, with bad reasoning, a little politics, and much evil speaking; they also discussed new books.†
Chpt 22
- "I grant," said the Senator, "that the second, fourth, and sixth books of his AEneid are excellent, but as for his pious AEneas, his strong Cloanthus, his friend Achates, his little Ascanius, his silly King Latinus, his bourgeois Amata, his insipid Lavinia, I think there can be nothing more flat and disagreeable.†
Chpt 25
Definition:
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(insipid) dull (uninteresting and unimpactful)