insipid
adjective
without distinctive, interesting, or stimulating qualities; vapid.
insipidness
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a word derived from
insipid.
Example Sentences
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How do you catalogue the insipidness of Derek McInnes' Rangers team in Jablonec?
From BBC ● Aug. 27, 2026
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
When we call a thing earthy we impute cloddishness; by 'watery' we imply insipidness; 'airy' is for something trivial.
From Yet Again by Sir Max Beerbohm
