insipid

Example Sentences

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One does wonder how the actors fishing while swapping such insipid dialogue don’t cross their leaders and spend most of the time untangling, before flying their plane into the middle of a Rocky Mountain thunderstorm.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 13, 2026

He hopes a deeper relationship with European neighbours can help fire up Britain's insipid economy and inject life into a premiership that has so far been deeply unpopular with the public.

From Barron's • Jan. 18, 2026

The pain of Thursday's insipid Carabao Cup exit at the hands of Liverpool, who dismissed Spurs' first-leg advantage with a 4-0 thrashing at Anfield, had barely subsided.

From BBC • Feb. 9, 2025

An insipid mishmash of trite genre tropes, “Borderlands” is devoid of any real edge.

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 9, 2024

Orgota cooking was insipid; no harm in that.

From "The Left Hand of Darkness" by Ursula K. Le Guin