Example Sentences

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The district also has social media and outdoor advertising campaigns, but like the DWP’s, the design suffers from insipidness.

From Los Angeles Times • May 12, 2022

Kiernan’s wider lens on the Gilded Age compensates for her protagonists’ insipidness.

From New York Times • Oct. 11, 2017

As one of the earliest examples of what we presently call aggregation, “Talk Soup” was a welcome pushback to a widespread insipidness that now seems quaint.

From Washington Post • Dec. 17, 2015

Robert Reed, who played father Mike Brady, went to his grave still grumbling about the insipidness of the show; Davis seemed to exult in it.

From Washington Post

Nor is hers the champagne temperament,—rather that of rich and mellow old Madeira, a wine of substance, of delicate aroma and of fruity flavor, which does not immediately bubble itself into a state of insipidness.

From Famous Prima Donnas by Strang, Lewis Clinton