insipid
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In the meantime, there’s a lot of unwieldy comic commotion involving a missing corpse, a tweaking, naked Dwight and enough insipid TV sibling bickering to clog the airwaves for a decade.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 23, 2026
But more often than not, the combination comes off forced; corny at best, insipid at worst.
From Salon ● Aug. 20, 2026
It’s an eye-crossing quantity of goodwill, so insipid and repetitive as to become unreadable.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 29, 2026
Liverpool have taken one point from their past three games and their last performance, in an away defeat at Brighton, was really insipid.
From BBC ● Apr. 2, 2026
This seems to placate her for the moment and I tell the same story to Elizabeth, with a few more details to Hilly, pinching my arm to bear her insipid smile.
From "The Help" by Kathryn Stockett
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Grade 10, List 4
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"The Fall of the House of Usher" by Edgar Allan Poe
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