insipid
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It’s an eye-crossing quantity of goodwill, so insipid and repetitive as to become unreadable.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 29, 2026
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
In 1905, Edward Elgar, a fervent admirer of German music, described the British music scene as ‘vulgar, mediocre, chaotic and insipid’.
From "The Story of Music" by Howard Goodall
Vocabulary lists containing insipid
Grade 10, List 4
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"The Fall of the House of Usher" by Edgar Allan Poe
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