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

Liverpool missed his energy in an insipid midfield as Slot tries to plug a gap at right-back left by Trent Alexander-Arnold's departure and more injuries to Conor Bradley and Jeremie Frimpong.

From BBC • Nov. 25, 2025

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

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 9, 2024

It’s like an Escher painting of insipid legal argumentation, except written in purple crayon.

From Slate • Apr. 11, 2024

When we woke in the morning, the rain had stopped, though the world was still insipid and dreary, and water was dripping from the trees.

From "A Walk in the Woods" by Bill Bryson