All 3 Uses of
bland
in
Middlemarch
- "What are you laughing at so profanely?" said Rosamond, with bland neutrality.†
Chpt 3 *
- He was a large-cheeked man, nearly seventy, with small furtive eyes, and was not only of much blander temper but thought himself much deeper than his brother Peter; indeed not likely to be deceived in any of his fellow-men, inasmuch as they could not well be more greedy and deceitful than he suspected them of being.†
Chpt 3
- Even the invisible powers, he thought, were likely to be soothed by a bland parenthesis here and there—coming from a man of property, who might have been as impious as others.†
Chpt 3
Definition:
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(bland) lacking stimulating characteristics -- especially in the flavor of food