Example Sentences

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I had to kiss some frogs — weird flavors, bitterness in the wrong places, insipidity.

From Washington Post • Mar. 28, 2023

Butter or cream of unique quality may be more essential to French cuisine, but many an unctuous sauce withers into insipidity without mustard.

From New York Times • Jul. 14, 2022

And of course it is not just children that inspire sentimental insipidity.

From The Guardian • Mar. 25, 2016

Clara – despite being herself perhaps the only character in the history of the show who could rival this new Doctor for insipidity – thought he was insipid.

From Forbes • Aug. 23, 2014

Instead, I spent some two hours a day in the translation of fragments from Greek and Latin; the texts being chosen for their convolution, recondite meaning, dryness, and insipidity.

From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party" by M.T. Anderson