All 3 Uses of
insipid
in
Northanger Abbey
- Yes, novels; for I will not adopt that ungenerous and impolitic custom so common with novel-writers, of degrading by their contemptuous censure the very performances, to the number of which they are themselves adding—joining with their greatest enemies in bestowing the harshest epithets on such works, and scarcely ever permitting them to be read by their own heroine, who, if she accidentally take up a novel, is sure to turn over its insipid pages with disgust.†
Chpt 5
- I know you very well; you have so much animation, which is exactly what Miss Andrews wants, for I must confess there is something amazingly insipid about her.†
Chpt 6
- Everything is so insipid, so uninteresting, that does not relate to the beloved object!
Chpt 6 *insipid = insignificant, feeble, or lacking flavor
Definition:
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(insipid) dull (uninteresting and unimpactful)