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While adequate nutritiously, her diet is bland.bland = dull (lacking flavor)
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The museum curator replaced the bland beige walls with vibrant colors, transforming the entire atmosphere of the gallery.bland = dull
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She gave a bland smile, showing no real excitement or emotion.bland = emotionless or unexpressive
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The soup was too bland and needed more spices to bring out the flavor.bland = lacking flavor
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They put him on a bland diet, but soon he didn't have an appetite for anything at all. (source)
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If Atticus could blandly introduce me to Boo Radley at a time like this, well—that was Atticus. (source)blandly = in a manner that is uninteresting
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Her stomach shuddered, but she kept her voice bland. (source)bland = uninterestingly steady (lacking stimulating characteristics)
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"It's just another place to live," Mr. Hart said blandly, "middle-class, some upper." (source)blandly = in a manner that is dull or uninteresting
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It's postwar modern, fifty years old but still new to me: I can't get used to the flatness, the blandness.† (source)standard suffix: The suffix "-ness" converts an adjective to a noun that means the quality of. This is the same pattern you see in words like darkness, kindness, and coolness.
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On my nights to cook I made the blandest things I could think of: broiled white fish and mashed potatoes and macaroni and cheese, to give our taste buds a chance to grow back.† (source)
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Those "unnatural" feeds make chickens with mushier and blander meat.† (source)
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T.J.'s face was totally bland, as if nothing at all had happened.† (source)
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"It's a game, you see," pursued the general blandly. (source)blandly = in an unremarkable manner (without strong emotion or other stimulation)
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Dan let the new headmaster maul the fingers of his right hand; Dan looked into the pretty-blonde blandness of Sam's vacant, detached smile.† (source)
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That a creature made—in a genealogical sense—out of a man's rib, and in this particular case maintained in the highest respectability without any trouble of her own, should be normally in a state of contradiction to the blandest propositions and even to the most accommodating concessions, was a mystery in the scheme of things to which he had often in vain sought a clew in the early chapters of Genesis.† (source)
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When every member of his domestic and political systems moved smoothly in its appointed course, his nature was bland and genial; but, whenever there was a little hitch, and some of his orbs got out of their orbits, he was blander and more genial still, for nothing pleased him so much as to make the crooked straight and crush down uneven places.† (source)
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