Sample Sentences for
insipid
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  • he had to talk so properly that speech ... become insipid in his mouth;  (source)
    insipid = feeble or lacked flavor
  • It was cold outside, and dark, and a leaky, insipid mist lay swollen in the air and trickled down the large, unpolished stone blocks of the houses and the pedestals of monuments.  (source)
    insipid = dull, without impact
  • I tell the same story to Elizabeth, with a few more details to Hilly, pinching my arm to bear her insipid smile.  (source)
    insipid = insignificant, feeble, or dull
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  • A sermon which such people would accept would be to him as insipid as a poem which they could scan.  (source)
    insipid = insignificant
  • Though the vision was over, and she had returned to the insipidity of the world, she remembered what she had learnt.  (source)
    insipidity = insignificance or lack of flavor
  • Once he dreamt that it had come true and woke up in a cold panic, for in his dream she had been a silly, flaxen Clara, with the gold gone out of her hair and platitudes falling insipidly from her changeling tongue.†  (source)
  • It meant about as much to me as that insipid peace sign that was everywhere I looked:  (source)
    insipid = insignificant (unimportant)
  • The moment and the act he had prefigured for weeks with a thrill of pleasure; yet it was no less than a miserable insipidity to him now that it had come.  (source)
    insipidity = something uninteresting and without impact
  • At the counter she found a friend, bent on the same errand, and conversed with her insipidly, wasting much time.†  (source)
  • "Well, what have we got here?" he drawled, trying to put her on the defensive. He hadn't liked the fact that he'd been caught, nor was he pleased with his insipid opening line. Usually he was smoother than that. A lot smoother.  (source)
    insipid = uninteresting and without impact
  • I had shown Ferdinand my things as though I had been letting him into the deeper secrets of my existence, the true nature of my life below the insipidity of my days and nights.†  (source)
  • You would have been much at a loss to determine his original clime and country; he had none of the superficial signs that usually render the answer to this question an insipidly easy one.†  (source)
  • ...the most insipid food was alone endurable;  (source)
    insipid = dull (lacking flavor)
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