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Yet their conversations are gratingly anodyne, invoking platitudes like “truth,” while the visuals insipidly jump between screens, close-ups of faces and slow motion shots of the two on the road.

From New York Times • Jun. 28, 2023

Pictures of that and 44 similar bags, many of which insipidly say “thank you,” are laid out in a grid in the artist’s “A Field Guide to Pelagic Plastic Bags.”

From Washington Post • Sep. 23, 2022

It’s something about her Kimmy Gibbler grin and the knowing, the utter and complete knowing, that the tone of “Fuller House” is so insipidly wrong that it becomes, for certain viewers, perversely right.

From Washington Post • Feb. 24, 2016

It’s a familiar story insipidly told on screen.

From New York Times • Jul. 23, 2015

I was trying to speak insipidly, yet everything I said to Tibe seemed to take on a double meaning.

From "The Left Hand of Darkness" by Ursula K. Le Guin