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Extreme dullness; lacking spirit or interest.

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        Ús de insipidity en anglès
        1
        To our tongue the sonnet is mortal, and the parent of insipidity.
        The Letters of Horace Walpole, Earl of Orford — Volume 4
        2
        The characteristics of rhetoric are insipidity, mannerism, and monotonous parallelism of clauses.
        Phaedrus
        3
        He is refined without false delicacy, and correct without insipidity.
        The Illustrated London Reading Book
        4
        She is divinely innocent, but roguishness saves her from insipidity.
        A Cathedral Courtship
        5
        What is the secret of its weakness and utter insipidity?
        Sermons on Biblical Characters
        6
        Pretty, without vanity or affectation; gentle, without insipidity; and simple, yet highly polished, in mariners.
        The Idler in France
        7
        Certainly this was a return to the pre-Loughnane insipidity.
        The Irish Times
        8
        They descend into simple prettiness, which is simple insipidity.
        Lessons in Life; A Series of Familiar Essays
        9
        The insipidity, and yet the noise-thenothingness, and yet the self-importanceof all those people!
        Pride and Prejudice
        10
        Where others find insipidity I find salt and fire.
        Nights in London
        11
        With all this equability of temper and remarkable benevolence, there was no insipidity of character.
        Life and Letters of Charles Darwin — Volume 1
        12
        But as it is, you would die of my violence, or I of your insipidity.
        Joseph II. and His Court: An Historical Novel
        13
        The decline of the old English poetry is shown by an increase of diffuseness and insipidity.
        Epic and Romance: Essays on Medieval Literature
        14
        The reason of this insipidity is, that the ideality aimed at is all on the outside.
        The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 13, No. 76, February, 1864 / A Maga...
        15
        The heaviness and insipidity incident to boiled water may be somewhat relieved by afterward filtering it.
        Hygienic Physiology : with Special Reference to the Use of Alcoh...
        16
        In that case, insipidity would be no objection.
        At Last: A Novel
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