insipid
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Insipid and thready when it's cooked, you know, and has to have a lot of salt and pepper and butter to make it go down at all.
From A Voice in the Wilderness by Hill, Grace Livingston
Insipid milk, and lead-coloured butter, from equisetum fluviatile.
From North American Medical and Surgical Journal, Vol. 2, No. 3, July, 1826 by Bache, Franklin
I Shall not consider those Thoughts which are, in their own Nature, Vicious; as the Ambiguous, the Pointed, the Insipid, the Refined, the Bombast, and the rest.
From A Full Enquiry into the Nature of the Pastoral (1717) by Purney, Thomas
Insipid sobriety of thought and mind It "cuts no figure"—we can find— Save peaceful essays, gentle walks, Purring cats, old ladies' talks— But coffee! can other tales unfold.
From All About Coffee by Ukers, William H. (William Harrison)
Briefly, 'tis an Insipid Bawling piece of Foolery, from One end to the Other.
From Citt and Bumpkin (1680) by L'Estrange, Sir Roger
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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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